THE ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL ITEMS POWER AND LEADERSHIP WITH REGARDS TO THE CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH (COCA)
The research of lexical items power and leadership is based on the corpus of contemporary American English (COCA). The paper provides a definition of corpus, a brief literature review and analysis of the given lexical items in five genres of COCA. The author defines the frequency of lexical items, determines the most common right and left collocates for power and leadership, compares possible contexts of using lexemes. The data obtained from Corpus of contemporary American English are presented in tables and diagrams. The data are supported by examples from the corpus texts. The material presented in the article leads to the conclusion that power and leadership are more common in newspaper, magazine, and academic texts. Power is more common than leadership. The greatest number of intersections in use refers to political discourse. The common meaning of these lexical items from the analysis is сontrol.