WALL STREET

a) Keyness

‘Wall Street’ was the twenty-third most significant two-word cluster in the BEC corpus.

N	Word	bec freq.	bec.lst %	bnc freq.	bnc.lst %	Keyness	P
23	WALL STREET	111	0.01	0	-	237.7	0.000000

b) Semantic Prosody

Left: Two groups identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 126 & %	example
good news	13 - 10.31%	It’s celebration time on Wall Street. bankers have done well on Wall Street
bad news	10 - 7.93%	a serious setback on Wall Street Stocks plummeted on Wall Street the jitters resumed on Wall Street today

Right: Four groups identified.

semantic prosody	frequency/ 126 & %	example
good news (positive)	8- 6.34%	Wall Street had another good year Wall Street’s profit picture couldn’t be sunnier
bad news (negative)	11 - 8.73%	Wall Street crash Wall Street’s darkest day Wall Street bitterness
people	9 - 7.14%	Wall Street analysts Wall Street columnist
companies/institutions	12 - 9.52%	Wall Street firms Wall Street’s investment banks

c) Three-word clusters

N	cluster	Freq.
1	on wall street	38
2	the wall street	9
3	that wall street	6
4	wall street was	6
5	and wall street	4
6	wall street journal	4

d) Macro-generic distribution

e) Colligation

i) noun + on + wall street

22 instances - 17.46% of sample

f) Associates

N	WORD	NO. OF FILES	AS %
1	WALL STREET	15	100.00
2	THE DOW	8	53.33
3	ON WALL	5	33.33
4	NEW YORK	5	33.33