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Since Firth (1957) and Sinclair (1991), it has long been assumed that speakers’ attitudes towards a word or a group of words in the actual utterance are decided by their collocates. Previous research on the semantic prosody has been conducted around semantically related words, making fine-grained meaning distinctions between the synonymous words. However, a few studies, if any, distinguish between words’ literal and metaphorical senses in defining their semantic prosodies. This paper focuses on whether there is any change in semantic prosody when the literal senses of words are extended to metaphorical ones. The result shows a change in semantic prosody especially when a word is not involved in a word group where positive, negative and neutral prosodies are assigned to their members.
