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Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of up

Annalisa BaicchiAndreea Rosca

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060201 languages & linguisticsphrasal verbsLinguistics and Languagephrasal-prepositional verbsContext (language use)Cognition06 humanities and the artsCriminal behaviorLanguage and LinguisticsLinguisticsEnglish for the Policefrequency0602 languages and literatureL2 learnerscognitive linguisticsPsychologyCognitive linguisticsMeaning (linguistics)Llenguatge i llengües

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The present study focuses on the frequency of phrasal verbs with the particle up in the context of crime and police investigative work. This research emerges from the need to enlarge McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope from purely criminal behavior to police investigative actions. To do so, we relied on a corpus of 504,124 running words made up of spoken dialogues extracted from the script of the American TV series Castle shown on ABC since 2009. Based on Rudzka-Ostyn’s (2003) cognitive motivations for the particle up, we have identified five different meaning extensions for our phrasal verbs. Drawing from these findings, we have designed pedagogical activities for those L2 learners that study English at the Police Academy.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-09-19
10.5209/clac.53485http://hdl.handle.net/10550/57117