Peripheral Senses of the Concessive Lexical Item “but” in Business News Articles
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Peripheral Senses, Concessive Lexical Item “but”, Business News ArticlesAbstract
This study examines peripheral senses of the concessive lexical item “but” in the initial position of the sentence, which is used in business news articles. This study selected the data of business news articles from The New York Times, the well-known national American newspaper, between February 1, 2023 and May 30, 2023. A total of approximately 150,000 words provides 120 tokens with the concessive lexical item “but”. The semantic framework in this study is a dictionary-based approach. The data analysis of peripheral senses was validated by linguists.
The results in this study show that the peripheral senses of the lexical connector “but” in the initial position denote counteraction, prediction, and subjectivity. The discussion in this study shows that the use of “but” is widely acceptable in business English. The results in this current study are concordance with previous studies stating that the use of “but” at the beginning of the sentence was frequently found in journal of economics and finance.
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