An Analysis of Lexical and Grammatical Collocations in Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant”

Abstract

Oscar Wilde is a poet, dramatist, and short story writer. His “The Selfish Giant” is one of popular short stories. The message of the story is co-existence and spreading love. In recent years, collocation has emerged as an important category of lexical and grammatical patterns, and it is fast becoming an established unit of description in language teaching courses and materials. The arbitrary nature of collocation is ideally suited to independent language learning and that teachers need to equip students with skills to enable them to develop their knowledge of collocations independently of the teacher. This paper also analyses   lexical and grammatical collocation words found in Oscar Wilde’s “The Selfish Giant.” In particularly, words are related to the concepts of Building/Place and Emotions/Feelings.