Frequency of Suffixal Morphemes as a Characteristic of Chinese News Military Discourse
The news discourse with inherently regular use of new words can be characterized through the description of its typical derivational morphemes. Using corpus linguistic methods frequency of 80 Chinese suffixes and quasi-suffixes are estimated on the material of military-related news reports of the Chinese media, 10 of the most frequent and 10 of the least frequent of the morphemes are described. The main meanings of the considered suffixal morphemes constitute a meaningful characteristic of the discourse in study.