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Jordan's Economy: A Corpus-Based Study

Atef Aljbour

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate Jordan's economy throughout two periods (2001-2003; 2010-2012). For this purpose a journalistic corpus containing 48,291 news items obtained from the archive of Petra News agency, totaling 13,045,108 words was compiled. Out of this main corpus, an "economy subcorpus" was extracted to carry out a search of the phrase" Jordan's economy" by using ‘AntConc' software. The analysis of the contexts reveals, first, that the vast majority of the contexts in the first period (85%) carries positive connotations about the economy outlook in Jordan as opposed to only 25% in the second period, and second, that Jordan economic crisis which was expressed in the second period was largely attributed to the international financial crisis, domestic policies, which has been aggravated by the consequences of the "Arab Spring", and particularly the Syrian crisis. The revival of Jordan economy in the first period is attributed to Jordan's international economic agreements, and the government’s privatization programs.

1. Introduction

With the invention of computers and modern technology, new opportunities for researchers have been opened to study and an analyze language. This availability of modern computer technology, and consequently, the ability to computerize large amounts of language data and to access and retrieve this data led to the emergence of corpus linguistics. This research approach that has evolved recently has facilitated the analysis of a large body of information to aid exploring language use and revealing results of greater validity than would otherwise be possible.

Leech (1992: 106) emphasized the role of computer technology in linguistic research as follows:

The computer's ability to search, retrieve, sort, and calculate the contents of vast corpora of text, and to do all these things at an immense speed, gives us the ability to comprehend, and to account for, the contents of such corpora in a way which was not dreamed of in the pre-computational era of corpus linguistics.

The word ‘corpus’ has a Latin origin meaning ‘body’. In linguistics, a corpus is "a large collection of linguistic data, either written texts or a transcription of recorded speech, which can be used as a starting point of linguistic description or as a means of verifying hypotheses about a language (Crystal, 1995). According to (Dash 2005: 12), a corpus should represent both the common and special linguistic features of the language from which it is designed and developed; It should be large and wide enough to contain materials from a variety of fields, and it should be accessible in a computerized format.

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Atef Aljbour
Language Center, Hashemite University
Zarqa, Jordan
Tel: 962-772-400-199
E-mail: aljbour2005@yahoo.com
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