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Several adjectives in this group indicate various relations between research entities such as<br />

taxonomical relations (viz. typical), whole-part relations (viz. representative), associated<br />

relations (viz. reminiscent) <strong>and</strong> so on. The figures in Table 9.25 above indicate that the<br />

concept of representativeness is more prioritized in ALC than it is in BC in purely quantitative<br />

terms (i.e. in the number of tokens in each corpus), but that this concept is more variously<br />

described in BC than it is in ALC (viz. types). It is also interesting to note that taxonomic<br />

relations (as represented primarily by the adjective typical) seem to be of much greater<br />

interest to applied linguists than they are to business researchers.<br />

Concordance analysis of the LSP typical of N indicates that typicality in ALC<br />

focuses on language type/production/activity, whereas in BC it indicates a particular type of<br />

configuration/organization:<br />

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The taxonomical relation links a feature to a particular genre of language activity in ALC (e.g.<br />

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