Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of "up"
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frequency, phrasal verbs, phrasal-prepositional verbs, cognitive linguistics, English for the Police
Abstract
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.Downloads
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Published
2016-09-19
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Rosca A. y Baicchi A. (2016). Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of "up". Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 67, 273-296. https://doi.org/10.5209/CLAC.53485
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