Sutarsyah, Cucu (2013) THE COLLOCATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS IN ECONOMIC AND ACADEMIC CORPORA. Atma jaya Conference on Corpus studies, 1 (1). pp. 45-53. ISSN 978-602-8474-25-2

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Abstract

It has been argued that a word is best learned from its context, showing the importance of learning various lexical combinations occurring in sentences. Several major variations of lexical combination can be identifies, each exhibiting varying degrees of cohesiveness. One of the famous lexical combinations is called collocations. Collocation is defined as the co-occurrence of words in a text. The term ‘collocation’ is generally used in discussing the nature of lexis and its relation to grammar (Nation, 2001). Even though lexis is usually contrasted with grammar, they sometimes have a close relationship with each other. This study investigates the pattern of collocation of the high frequency words occurring in two corpora, economics and academic corpora. The collocational behavior of these words in both economics and academic texts is compared. It was found that the difference in the richness of collocations in the two corpora is simply due to the difference in the text types of these two corpora. In the economics corpus which consists of texts on one topic, there is more opportunity for significant collocations to be repeated. The chance for the same collocates to occur frequently is greater than in the Academic corpus. In the Academic corpus which consists of many differen texts, there is smaller chance for the same collocates to occur repeatedly. There are very few collocates in the Academic corpus which do not occur in the Economics corpus. However, only a small number of collocates occur very frequently in both corpora. Keywords: Collocate, collocation, corpus, economics, academic, high frequency words

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP) > Prodi Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	CUCU SUTAR
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2021 01:19
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2021 01:19
URI:	http://repository.lppm.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/27879

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