DISCUSS
a) Keyness
The lemma ‘discuss’ was the two hundred and fiftieth most
significant key word in the BEC Corpus.
|
N |
Word |
Freq. |
bec.lst % |
Freq. |
bnc.lst % |
Keyness |
P |
|
250 |
DISCUSS |
280 |
0.03 |
202 |
0.01 |
113.6 |
0.000000 |
b) Semantic Prosody
Left: No groups detected.
Right: One group identified.
|
semantic prosody |
frequency/ 127
& % |
example |
|
reference to more discussion |
16 - 12.59% |
discuss anything
further discuss the matter
further |
c) Three-word
clusters
|
N |
cluster |
Freq. |
|
1 |
to discuss the |
13 |
|
2 |
wish to discuss |
11 |
|
3 |
you wish to |
8 |
|
4 |
to discuss it |
7 |
|
5 |
to discuss any |
6 |
|
6 |
to discuss your |
6 |
|
7 |
if you wish |
5 |
|
8 |
need to discuss |
5 |
|
9 |
to discuss in |
5 |
|
10 |
discuss anything further |
4 |
|
11 |
to discuss anything |
4 |
|
12 |
to discuss with |
4 |
|
13 |
want to discuss |
4 |
d) Macro-generic
distribution
e) Colligation
COBUILD Sense 1 (to talk about something often to reach a
decision)
92 instances - 72.44% of
sample
Patterns: Verb, verb-noun, verb-who-infinitive
you should discuss the
matter with your manager...
COBUILD Sense 2 (write or talk about something in detail)
35 instances - 27.55% of sample
Patterns: Verb-noun
Here to discuss the
question is Russell Smith, an attorney ...
Other patterns:
i) verb + to + discuss/verb + noun + to + discuss
59 instances - 46.45% of sample
we need to discuss,
take direct contact with the branches to discuss
ii) noun + to + discuss
12 instances - 9.44% of sample
PGW to discuss with
NBR asap
f) Associates
The word ‘discuss’ was key in 1 file. No associates of frequency
> =5 were found.