SHAREHOLDER
a) Keyness
The
lemma ‘shareholder’ was the sixty-eighth most significant key word in the BEC
corpus.
|
N |
Word |
bec freq. |
bec.lst % |
Freq. |
bnc.lst % |
Keyness |
P |
|
68 |
SHAREHOLDER |
286 |
0.03 |
73 |
- |
311.1 |
0.000000 |
b) Semantic Prosody
The
sample size was too small in this case to make any significant generalisations
(63 occurrences). One group for each side of the node word was, however,
discerned.
Left:
One group identified.
|
semantic prosody |
frequency/63 & % |
example |
|
size/significance |
9 -
14.28% |
main shareholder major shareholder |
Right:
One group identified.
|
semantic prosody |
frequency/63 & % |
example |
|
value/returns
for shareholders (value
15 instances) (returns
13 instances) |
28
- 44.44% |
total
shareholder return improving
shareholder value |
c) Three-word clusters
|
N |
cluster |
Freq. |
|
1 |
total
shareholder return |
12 |
|
2 |
as
total shareholder |
3 |
|
3 |
for
the shareholder |
3 |
|
4 |
such
as total |
3 |
d) Macro-generic distribution:
e) Colligation
COBUILD
Sense 1 (a person who owns shares in a company)
100%
of sample (only one sense given in COBUILD)
Patterns:
Count noun
a
111-a-share offer from the controlling shareholder
Other
patterns:
i) The word ‘shareholder’ seems
to lend itself to being part of three and two word pre-and post-modified noun
and verb phrases:
example noun phrases: total shareholder return, significant
shareholder value, leading shareholder, minority shareholder
example verb phrases: increase shareholder value, create
shareholder value, improving shareholder value
ii)
The collocational patterns here mostly come from the Reports or Annual Reports section of the corpus. The report where it appears
most is Report 16, a report concerned with financial management.
The next most favoured
criterion, however, was total shareholder
return (11%) - which does not feature at all, so far as ESOS are concerned,
in the present survey.
f) Associates
The
word ‘shareholder’ was key in 3 files. No associates
of frequency > =5 were found.