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6.3. Conclusion
This chapter presented a case study analysis focusing on the pattern A DJ about N. It is hoped
that this case study has helped to cast light on the analytical procedures that yielded the results
that will be reported in the following chapters. I also hope to have presented examples which
show the particular benefits of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analysis. The
advantage of correspondence analysis is that it is able to discover significant differences in
pattern usage across corpora without any biasing or intervention on the part of the human
analyst. The advantage of qualitative, concordance-based discourse analysis is that it reveals
distinct (but often extremely subtle) semantic differences in the way in whi
that the ostensible evaluative polarity of certain adjectives is often very different from the
actual evaluative polarity expressed by the phraseological pattern in which the adjective
occurs.
In the following chapters, I will present the results of my quantitative data analysis
and qualitative discourse analysis for all of the variant forms of the pattern A DJ PR EP N in
detail. I will then generalize my findings and come to some general conclusions as to what my
findings tell us about the disciplinary cultures of applied linguistics and business studies.
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