Indicadores de los cinco hábitos de 5S

items or things to be done or discussed and a hidden plan or program. Agenda has slightly higher frequency in the second sense, about 56 % of occurrences, however, this is insignificant difference. Agenda showed a positive or neutral meaning in the firs sense, but has mostly negative association in the second sense as in the use of development and political in:

…of the State Development Bank and other agenda items related to the work of the group... (182) ...with a broad range of political interests and agenda impeding the negotiations. A number

of...(86)

The collocates associated with agenda in the first sense were often nouns (item, issue, development, research). Adjective and verb collocates (political, own, different, high, include, pursue, push, support, work) were often associated with agenda in the second sense. The use of adjectives and verbs is functional here. Language users describe or specify certain attributes to the noun agenda by adjectives and express the action concerning the concept of agenda by verbs.

By looking at denotation and connotation, agenda has a denotative meaning that was literal, explicit, and referential in some examples as in cellulite solution hints. Items on the consent agenda were: City Council minutes of March 13, 2012 (line 46). In the second sense, agenda has a connotative meaning that was implicit and indirect showing

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language users having skeptical attitude about the underlying plans and goals as in he confronted as he pushed the pro-wolf agenda in Montana. "The Wolf is the Saddam Hussein of. And in with and pursue similar ideological agenda (cue theremin). in any case, stinkier than the (see lines 105 and 124 in Appendix A). Although agenda tended to be more frequent and negative in the second sense, this pattern suggests a reasonable use and does not reflect a clear bias or preference toward a particular sense of agenda. However, this slight tendency toward negative association in the second sense suggested uncertainty, as a discourse prosody, from language users’ perspective urging them to show skeptical attitude when using agenda.

As to liberal, it was mostly used to express one's attitude toward various sociopolitical issues (instances of liberal are provided with line number and are available in Appendix B). Although the corpus included textual materials from other English speaking countries (e.g., Canada and the U.K.) most of the issues were related to the sociopolitical situation in the U.S such as the debate on certain policies (e.g. abortion) and election results. Liberal (often associated with democrats) was used as opposed to conservative within the U.S. context to signal political affiliation or leaning in:

...is similar to the satisfaction that some liberal take in learning that conservative states are...(158)

...part of American policy in the ME. There are liberal and conservative social politics at play here...(205)

These ten collocates (conservative, progressive, want, right, go, come, support, medium, friend, country) of liberal were used both to call for or criticize liberal approach in dealing with various social, political, and moral issues as well. The overlap between the senses of liberal, a person who is a supporter or a member of a political party and

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one who is open to other or new opinions and not a strict observant of traditional values, made it difficult to tell whether liberal has negative or positive association. Thus, it is safe to look at liberal as a neutral concept. However, when liberal co-occur with these collocates (art, education, college) they denote general knowledge or academic subjects as opposed to professional or technical fields where the meaning is relatively distinguishable from the previous senses.

Language users have their own views of the sociopolitical issues and, thus, try to promote such views as in way sending messages that they concur. Yes, we liberals want to help women avoid unwanted pregnancy (See 23 above) in which they express their demands using the verb want. The verb want was also used to defend or blame it to liberals by other language users as in is just to applaud whatever the Bush team does. Liberal don't want to talk about Iraq because, with a few (See line 177). The same thing happened with the verb go in:

...militant socialist. It is the desire among many liberal to go back and refight battles, or redo events...(236)

...FOR MAKING PEOPLE GO BROKE. I can go on with my liberal rants all day, but I won't waste my breath...(178)

The dual use of the different collocates (in the two senses) with liberal can be referred to the competing nature of sociopolitical issues evoking controversies and debates. Language users interact with the sociopolitical discourse when they promote or defend, some views as well as when criticizing those of others. In other words, it is the language user's functional use to express his attitude toward 'liberal' by choosing one of the frequent collocates and it is the reader or recipient to see this as negative or otherwise.

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The findings showed lobby slightly (5%) more frequent in the sense of a special or pressure group than a large room or open area. So, the co-occurrence pattern did not reflect a significant difference toward either sense. The denotative meaning of lobby was introduced by (hotel, new, building, area, find, day) in the first sense, whereas the connotative meaning was primarily implied in (group, industry, say, lead, support, company, time) the second sense. Language users used the set of collocates in the denotative meanings of lobby to indicate or refer to a place and there were almost no positive or negative associations and this can be seen in these citations from Appendix C:

...and modernize the hotels' lobbies, add a new lobby bar and hospitality area, renovate the buffet...(183)

...At 8 am the day after I went down to the lobby and looked for Troy at the tables in the bar...(84)

The connotation of lobby, often captured in the second sense, exhibits a combination of negative, neutral, and even positive associations which made it difficult to describe language users' attitude (see example citations below):

...set up consulting companies or (God forbid) lobby companies in Ottawa. Over the next few years we... (1)

...are ubiquitously available. I'm glad the cable lobby energetically supports a diverse broadband... (106)

...Group dedicates his time to educating and lobby for the visitor industry and several...(29)

This is partly due to some collocates that were used in both senses of lobby, though one was more frequent than the other. Another reason can be referred to the connotative meaning of lobby, as a special interest group, in which language users employ the concept of lobbying in accordance with their goals. For instance, by alerting to power abuse or by promoting a pressure group. It can be seen that the set of collocates

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of lobby did not include any reference to a specific group or party or organization. Thus, there was no strong bias or tendency to negativity or an identification of entities associated with unwanted lobbying activities.