Table 3 The top 20 notional words from the frequency list.

From: A corpus-based discourse analysis of China’s national image constructed by environmental news in The New York Times

Rank

Frequency

Words

Rank

Frequency

Words

1

300

China

11

53

plastic

2

93

environmental

12

51

climate

3

86

Chinese

13

51

new

4

75

coal

14

50

country

5

74

CFC

15

50

officials

6

74

government

16

49

pollution

7

71

Beijing

17

49

power

8

69

emissions

18

48

last

9

61

year

19

39

production

10

54

energy

20

37

ozone

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