| 词汇 | malapropism |
| 释义 | malapropism noun[ C ] languageuk /ˈmæl.ə.prɒp.ɪ.zəm/ us /ˈmæl.ə.prɑː.pɪ.zəm/(US alsomalaprop) the wrong use of one word instead of another word because they sound similar to each other, with results that are unintentionally funny近音词误用 Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Anglicism antonym antonymous buzzword cognate coinage homography homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony productive productively receptive receptively referent vocab You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Faults and mistakes Examples of malapropismmalapropism In this way, we are losing verbal harmonies and comedy as surely as we are losing refinements of meaning through the spread of malapropisms. Some of them even resisted it when the "critique" went to the extreme of absurdity and malapropism. It is however in the realm of informal discourse that all types of ludic word-forming - from malapropisms to homonymic puns - thrive most richly. Last, we look at how often detection of a malapropism led to correction of the error. The malapropism-insertion rate of one word in 200 was an arbitrary choice that seemed "sparse enough" to prevent the malapropisms from interacting with one another. The result, especially in the early chapters, is a text littered with an embrassingly large number of stylistic infelicities, orthographic mistakes and occasional malapropisms. Errors (17) and (18) can be interpreted as malapropisms. The word henhouse was also suspected of being a malapropism, but had no spelling variations. Nonetheless, taking relatedness too broadly will result in failing to detect malapropisms; they will be spuriously found to be related to their context. A malapropism is a perturbation of the cohesion (and coherence) of a text. First, the malapropisms that we are considering are primarily performance errors - slips in typing. The need for artificial data is obvious: there is no large-enough, naturally occurring annotated corpus of malapropisms. Specifically, the proportion of detected malapropisms for which the correct replacement was found ranged from 92% for scope = 1 to 97.4% for scope = max. Good editing is not one of them : it is scandalous that a university press should produce a text so littered with mistakes of spelling, syntactical blunders, and occasional malapropisms. Of these, however, eight could be interpreted as character blends, three as haplology, two as malapropisms, four as a misapplication of the tone sandhi rule, and two as rhythmic perseverations. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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