A Corpus-based Comparative Study of Company Profiles --A Case Study Between World Top-500 and Zhejiang Top-100

摘要

Based on a self-constructed corpus of company profiles of 92 World Top-500 and 63 Zhejiang Top-100 of small and medium-sized enterprises.the author uses Wordsmith 4.0 to compare the word lists between them and has found that Top 500 use few words than Top 100.By analyzing the first 200 most frequently used keyword lists,we find that there are 72 key words which are found in both lists, but only 15 of them have the significance of the frequency.Then,the author has made a close study of two sample profiles by using the flame work of Halliday's Thematie Theory.we nnd that the profile of Top 500 is more customer-oriented while the profile of TOp 100 is more self-centered.