A systematic analysis of a two-word concgram in Nepalese policy documents: A corpus-driven approach

Abstract

In a general sense, a corpus refers to a collection of texts. More specifically, a corpus is a collection of naturally occurring machine-readab-le discourse put together for linguistic research (Adolphs, 2006; McEnery & Hardie, 2012) and the area of linguistics that studies a corpus is corpus linguistics. Corpus linguistics has been informed by empiricism as its philosophical base for the study of language (Adolphs, 2006; Aijmer, 2009; McEnery & Hardie, 2012; Sinclair & Carter, 2004; Stubbs, 2005, 2007) for making sense of naturally occurring language data (Tognini-Bonelli, 2001). It has been a fertile field of research because it has a broader application in different areas such as language teaching, professional communication, and academic writing, to name but three. Based on the nature and purpose of research, corpus research has been divided into three types: corpus-based, corpus-driven, and data-driven (Adolphs, 2006; McEnery & Hardie, 2012; Rayson, 2008; Tognini-Bonelli, 2001) Abstract