3.3 Data collection and analysis
In the study, Shower cream description as described in 3.1 was 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.
Words with less than 5 occurrences were deleted. Then the resulting list was sorted in
an alphabetical order. Words in the list were classified into 3 groups: common nouns,
verbs, and adjectives each word was used as a keyword to instruct WConcord to display
the word in a concordance format in order to find which words are frequently cooccurred
with the keywords.
To analysis nouns, the lists were sorted in 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 word. After that the
resulting nouns were grouped according to their meaning or types.
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To analysis verbs, the lists were