A CORPUS-BASED STUDY ON KEYWORDS AND COLLOCATIONS OF KEYWORDS IN BUSINESS ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Abstract

The study aims at investigating the most frequently used keywords in business articles and identify the patterns of collocations of keywords used in business articles. One hundred articles from business columns in “The econimist” newspapers published between the year 2019 and 2020 were chosen and the raw data was then analyzed thanks to the application of the Antconc 3.5.8. software developed by Laurence Anthony in 2014.
Within the adpotion of corpus-based research method, the findings of the study presented a list of 100 keywords that were most commonly used in business newspapers with detailed investigation into their semantic domains and grammatical functions. In the next stage, collocations of the top 10 keywords were identified and analyzed in terms of semantics and grammatical structures. The results of the study can be very beneficial to a wide range of subjects, including researchers, teachers, leanrers, language educators and many other stakeholders in the field of Business English.