Table 5 Top 3 The attitude markers ranked by frequency.

From: Identifying stance in legislative discourse: a corpus-driven study of data protection laws

Rank

Attitude markers

USLC

EULC

CLC

1

appropriate (4.53)

appropriate (21.73)

important (9.17)

2

essential (0.65)

important (1.02)

appropriate (7.45)

3

expected (0.32)

agree (0.68)

agreed (2.29)