CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CORPUS RESEARCH ACROSS FIVE YEARS: STUDY OF JOURNAL ARTICLES (CORPORUM 2020-2024)

Abstract

Corpus linguistics have provided ample evidence of linguistic features in the form of corpora. Most of the linguistic research published in the journals have used corpus as a method or a tool but none have reviewed and identified popular genres of discourse and how Pakistani English corpora are evaluated. Current research analyses the published articles in the leading journal (CORPORUM) and reports on the utilization of genres for research purposes. It employs quantitative content analysis of articles published between 2020-2024. Articles are classified into four dimensions covering topical content and discourse genre. Finally, corpus of Pakistani English, PakLocCorpus is evaluated for the presence and absence of different genres of discourse. Findings indicate that media discourse has become the most popular genre in corpus research. Also, it was observed that PakLocCorpus is rich in all genres of Pakistani English discourse.