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Using Wmatrix to Explore Discourse of Economic Growth

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Growth is a concept of particular interest for economic discourse. This paper sets out to explore a small corpus of economic growth, which consists of articles from The Economist. The corpus software used in this study is a web-based tool Wmatrix, an automatic tagging software able to assign semantic field (domain) tags, and to permit the extraction of key words and key semantic domains by applying the keyness calculation to tag frequency lists. The results show that at 99% confidence (or p < 0.01), the cut-off of 6.63 (log likelihood value) indicates that there are 1051 positive keywords (including multiword expressions) and 80 key semantic domains generated from the corpus. It is evident that BRICs or the emerging economies/markets, in particular China and India, are a big concern regarding economic growth over the past years. A number of examples of possible ways forward in teaching methodology are presented.

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  • Chunyu Hu, 2015. "Using Wmatrix to Explore Discourse of Economic Growth," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(9), pages 146-146, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:8:y:2015:i:9:p:146
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