Table 3 General information of sentences containing non-quotation “stability” and its strong collocates in each period.

From: Discursive use of stability in New York Times’ coverage of China: a sentiment analysis approach

Periods

Number of sentences

Word tokens

Word types

Period 1

19

459

249

Period 2

24

761

374

Period 3

89

2849

1025

Period 4

146

4596

1438

Total

278

8665

3086