A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing
In recent years, there is a growing interest in understanding how multi-word sequences, particularly the continuous ones, are structured and used in academic discourse. For instance, in analysing academic prose, Biber et al. (1999) revealed that most continuous multi-word sequences, i.e. lexical bun...
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| description | In recent years, there is a growing interest in understanding how multi-word sequences, particularly the continuous ones, are structured and used in academic discourse. For instance, in analysing academic prose, Biber et al. (1999) revealed that most continuous multi-word sequences, i.e. lexical bundles are not complete structural units in their corpus of academic writing. These lexical bundles often end in a function word, such as an article or a preposition (e.g. as a result of, the context of the). The few structurally complete bundles are usually phrases that function as discourse markers (e.g. in the first place, for the first time). A notable finding by Biber et al. (1999) is closely related to the potentially useful but much neglected discontinuous multi-word sequences. They found that most lexical bundles in academic prose consist of prepositional or nominal elements that co-occur in highly productive frames, such as the + * + of the + *. The two empty slots represented by the asterisk key * can be filled by many words to make different lexical bundles (e.g., the number of the patterns, the nature of the business). |
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| spelling | usm-457292019-10-25T08:22:25Z http://eprints.usm.my/45729/ A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing Ang, Leng Hong H1-99 Social sciences (General) In recent years, there is a growing interest in understanding how multi-word sequences, particularly the continuous ones, are structured and used in academic discourse. For instance, in analysing academic prose, Biber et al. (1999) revealed that most continuous multi-word sequences, i.e. lexical bundles are not complete structural units in their corpus of academic writing. These lexical bundles often end in a function word, such as an article or a preposition (e.g. as a result of, the context of the). The few structurally complete bundles are usually phrases that function as discourse markers (e.g. in the first place, for the first time). A notable finding by Biber et al. (1999) is closely related to the potentially useful but much neglected discontinuous multi-word sequences. They found that most lexical bundles in academic prose consist of prepositional or nominal elements that co-occur in highly productive frames, such as the + * + of the + *. The two empty slots represented by the asterisk key * can be filled by many words to make different lexical bundles (e.g., the number of the patterns, the nature of the business). Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan Moussa, Pourya Asl Kumaran, Rajandran Azam, Yasir 2019 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/45729/1/ART32.pdf Ang, Leng Hong (2019) A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing. In: The 5Th International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 163-168. ISBN 9789674614362 |
| spellingShingle | H1-99 Social sciences (General) Ang, Leng Hong A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title | A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title_full | A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title_fullStr | A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title_short | A Corpus-driven Analysis of Lexical Frames in Academic Writing |
| title_sort | corpus-driven analysis of lexical frames in academic writing |
| topic | H1-99 Social sciences (General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/45729/ http://eprints.usm.my/45729/1/ART32.pdf |