Data collective and analysis
In the study, texts from Thai Airlines magazines as described in 3.1 were
collected to compile a corpus. Then, WConcord was used to inform statistic details of
the corpus. After that, a word frequency list was built. The list was sorted in a frequency
order.
To analyze nouns, the list were sorted an alphabetical order. The nouns were
selected and other words were deleted. If the words can be more than one function such
as nouns or verbs, the context of such words were displayed in a concordance format to
check whether they were ‘nouns’, ‘verb’ or ‘adjective’, Cambridge Online Dictionaries
used as a reference to check the part of speech and meaning of each words. After that
the resulting nouns were grouped according to their meaning or types.