LOCAL
a) Keyness
The lemma ‘local’ was the nine-hundred and eleventh most
significant key word in the BEC corpus.
|
N |
Word |
bec freq. |
bec.lst % |
bnc freq. |
bnc.lst % |
Keyness |
P |
|
911 |
LOCAL |
401 |
0.04 |
553 |
0.03 |
24.7 |
0.000000 |
b) Semantic Prosody
Left: No main groups identified
Right: Four groups identified.
|
semantic prosody |
frequency/ 399
& % |
example |
|
institutions/companies |
142 - 35.58% |
local authorities local government local carriers |
|
people/groups of people |
53 - 13.28% |
local accountant local customer local people |
|
products/services |
19 - 4.76% |
local area network
(LAN) local brands local product |
|
market |
17 - 4.26% |
local residential
market local telephone
market |
c) Three-word
clusters
|
N |
cluster |
Freq. |
|
1 |
of the local |
11 |
|
2 |
in the local |
10 |
|
3 |
the local business |
7 |
|
4 |
the local telephone |
7 |
|
5 |
to the local |
7 |
|
6 |
into the local |
6 |
|
7 |
the local authorities |
6 |
|
8 |
the local authority |
6 |
|
9 |
a local authority |
5 |
|
10 |
in local government |
5 |
|
11 |
a local customer |
4 |
|
12 |
are not a |
4 |
|
13 |
as well as |
4 |
|
14 |
if you are |
4 |
|
15 |
local telephone market |
4 |
|
16 |
not a local |
4 |
|
17 |
with the local |
4 |
|
18 |
you are not |
4 |
d) Macro-generic
distribution
e) Colligation
COBUILD Sense 1 (belonging to the area where you live or are
talking about)
338 instances - 84.71% of sample
Patterns: Adjective, adjective-noun
I think local
advertising is probably the best
We advertise in the
local press
COBUILD Sense 2 (local government)
61 instances - 15.28% of sample
Patterns: Adjective: usually adjective-noun
in partnership with
local authorities
financial constraints
that local government is operating under
Other patterns:
i) in + local + noun (often plural):
13 instances - 3.35% of sample
ii) noun phrases: noun + and + local:
8 instances - 2% of sample
state and local taxes,
expatriate and local management
f) Associates
|
N |
WORD |
NO. OF FILES |
AS % |
|
1 |
LOCAL |
9 |
100.00 |
|
2 |
MARKET |
6 |
66.67 |
Comments
1. The words collocating with
‘local’ included a high number of non-business words such as government, authorities, university.
Thus, whilst it has, similar to the two previous words global and international,
a large group concerned with institutions and companies, in the case of ‘local’, the occurrences are much more
related to non-business institutions.
