LOGISTICS, LOGISTICAL, LOGISTIC: DIACHRONIC AND SYNCHRONIC CORPUS
ANALYSIS
Dr. Violeta Jurkovič
Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport
Portorož
Introduction
• The terminal in Verona supports the production of three main operator categories: production activities, forwarding agents and logistic operators.
• In order to alleviate the pressure on the environment, it will be necessary for further logistical plans to include green solutions.
Introduction
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Introduction
A language corpus is …
… a collection of authentic texts (Krek and Arhar, 2010), which is homogeneously encoded and computer readable
(Aston, 1996).
Introduction
Main research question:
•pre-modifying function in nominal phrases in English texts– logistics terminal– logistical terminal– logistic terminal
Methodology
• International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management
• Three volumes • 162 articles
1994 2004 2013
Articles 56 66 40
Tokens 181,981 226,328 243,041
Types 8,964 10,316 11,042
Methodology
• Keywords …
... appear in the specialized corpus significantly more often (at the level of p=0.000) than in the referential corpus (BNC = British National Corpus)
• Collocates …
... are words that are habitually met with other words with a frequency greater than chance.
Results
QUESTION 1:
Which are the keywords in each of the sub-corpora compared to the BNC?
Results – keywords – 1994
N Key word Freq. %1 LOGISTICS 721 0.402 CUSTOMER 714 0.393 SUPPLIER 508 0.284 SERVICE 776 0.435 DISTRIBUTION 444 0.24
33 LOGISTICAL 79 0.04360 LOGISTICIANS 9
LOGISTIC 0 0
Results – keywords – 2004
N Key word Freq. %
1 SUPPLY 1,586 0.70
2 LOGISTICS 846 0.37
3 CHAIN 1,202 0.53
4 SUPPLIER 562 0.25
5 MANAGEMENT 884 0.39
390 LOGISTIC 22
411 LOGISTICAL 19
LOGISTICIANS 0 0
Results – keywords – 2013
N Key word Freq. %
1 AL 1,231 0.48
2 ET 1,193 0.47
3 SUPPLY 1,176 0.46
4 CHAIN 937 0.37
5 LOGISTICS 619 0.24
301 LOGISTICAL 29 0.01
368 LOGISTIC 28 0.01
LOGISTICIANS 0 0
Results
QUESTION 2:
Does a comparison among the results indicate any variation in the use of ‘logistic’, ‘logistical’, and ‘logistics’ through time?
Results - keywords
Results
QUESTION 3:
•What are the most frequent collocates with ‘logistic’, ‘logistical’, and ‘logistics’ in each volume?
Results – R1 collocates of ‚logistics‘
1994 2004 2013
IS 36 AND 67 AND 44
MANAGEMENT 32 MANAGEMENT 52 ALLIANCE 26
OPERATIONS 31 RESEARCH 51 ACTIVITIES 21
SERVICE 29 CAPABILITIES 38 SERVICES 21
SYSTEM 29 DISCIPLINE 35 RESEARCH 18 PERFORMANCE 26 IN 25 SCHOLARS 17
Results – R1 collocates of ‚logistical‘
1994 2004 2013
SEGMENTATION 14 AND 1 SUPPORT 5
CHANNELS 5 PACKAGING 1
COSTS 5
EXCELLENCE 5
FUNCTIONS 5
Results – R1 collocates of ‚logistic‘
1994 2004 2013
FLOW 4 REGRESSION 12 SUPPORT 8
FLOW 5 AND 3
Discussion
Logistics
Logistical
Logistic
Operators
Plans
Activities
System
Discussion
• Logistic/al only adjectives• Logistics – noun or pre-modifier (high frequency)• Versatility of English nouns – language transfer• ‚support‘ links well with all three forms• Share and ranking of ‚logistics‘ decreased• Ranking of ‚supply‘ and ‚chain‘ improved• Research shift?• Corpus analysis to illustrate trends (‚logistics alliance/s‘
in 2013)
Conclusion
• Logistics• Logistical• Logistic