The present study attempts to investigate Jordan's economy throughout two periods (2001-2003; 2010-2012). For this purpose a journalistic corpus containing 48,291 news items obtained from the archive of Petra News agency, totaling 13,045,108 words was compiled. Out of this main corpus, an "economy subcorpus" was extracted to carry out a search of the phrase" Jordan's economy" by using 'AntConc'…