The Collocate Result and Setting in AntConc

[Nur Rizka Kadir]

Hello Prof. Anthony,

I am confused about the collocation results in my data. For context, there is a project for corpus-based discourse analysis and I want to see the collocation of the word "waste" presented in media and how it links with the Eco-linguistics perspective. The problem is, in the data I analyzed, the result of "waste" collocation is also top by the word "waste" and followed by the word "management" (I attached the result below). On the contrary, when I try to analyze another word collocation, for example, the word "government", the result differs from the previous one as it is top by "city" and not the same word like "government" as in the last example.  I need to know if this is some kind of error or is it any other settings that I need to set up in AntConc for this issue. Hoping for feedback from you as I am still learning the feature of collocate in this software. Thank you in advance. 

Best regards,

Rizka.