컨벤션영어 코퍼스 기반 연어 분석

A corpus-based analysis of collocations in Convention English

The goal of the present study is to examine the collocations of a convention English corpus. The collocation lists were extracted from the specialized corpus of convention English complied from various resources about convention business. The four types of lexical collocations-noun+noun, adjective+noun, verb+noun, verb+adverb-were identified and analyzed according to the occurring frequencies. The analysis showed that the most frequently occurring collocation type was the noun+noun type (40.33%) followed by the adjective+noun type( 39.85%), showing that these two types accounted for about 80% of the total number of lexical collocations in the convention English corpus. This finding was compared with an analysis of a general English corpus (MASC) where the most frequent type was the adjective+noun combination (41.47%), with a significant gap of the occurrence of the noun+noun type (24.72%). The high-frequency verbs in verb-related collocations were not found to be different in the two corpora. These results suggested 1) the importance of the noun and the noun collocation to efficiently understand the texts of convention English, and 2) the importance of using collocation lists to better acquire contextual knowledge in learning convention English in class. Suggestions for using an ESP corpus in an ESP classroom are discussed.