Culturally marked collocations in New Zealand national variety of economic discourse

N Valeeva,Elena Madinyan,Elena Malyuga

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20208801006

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The article is devoted to the analysis of culturally marked collocations in the economic discourse of New Zealand. The study of collocations has gained momentum and become the subject of multiple studies connected with the interest for their formation, combinability, translation and stylistic connotations. However, collocations in the New Zealand economic discourse have hardly been explored before, hence it defines the relevance of this study. The purpose of this research is to identify semantic and cultural peculiarities of collocations in the New Zealand variant of English. The article presents statistic data on the frequency of various conceptual types of collocations in newspaper sections. The frequency of collocations used is determined by the quantitative analysis, while the description of the examples chosen has been given using contextual analysis and descriptive methods. Special attention is paid to the cultural specifics of collocations that reflect history, lifestyle, and traditions of the New Zealanders.

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Native speakers have an intuitive knowledge that some words in their language function in fixed combinations and any change to the lexemes of such collocations or their substitution with other lexemes lead to the feeling of inappropriateness of their use in the mind of native speakers and reveals foreign speech
Having analyzed 360 examples of collocations taken from the Finance and Market Sector segments of the New Zealand economic magazine NZ Herald, we can conclude that the economic discourse of New Zealand is dominated by the following concepts: nature (48%), road (22%), human (16%) and confrontation (14%)
The main concepts in the economic discourse of New Zealand are nature (48%), road (22%), human (16%) and confrontation (14%)

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Native speakers have an intuitive knowledge that some words in their language function in fixed combinations and any change to the lexemes of such collocations or their substitution with other lexemes lead to the feeling of inappropriateness of their use in the mind of native speakers and reveals foreign speech This fact is the most significant in economic discourse, as in the context of economic globalization and developed trade relations among various countries, the language of business has started to be widely used, which determines the importance of studying collocations as an indispensable element of speech during meetings, business talks, economic conferences and so on. The New Zealand variant of the English language poses a primary interest for our study, since New Zealand, while having been historically populated by the Maori people, was colonized by Great Britain and became a destination for a range of migrants from all over Europe.

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