Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing

Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing

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  • Author: Danica Salazar
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027269521
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and filtered by frequency, key word, structure and function, and includes contextual information such as variations, authentic examples and usage notes. The first part of the volumediscusses the creation of this list based on a multimillion-word corpus of biomedical research writing and reveals the structure and functions of lexical bundles and their role in effective scientific communication. A comparative analysis of a non-native corpus highlights non-native scientists’ difficulties’ inemploying lexical bundles. The second part of the volume explores pedagogical applications and provides a series of teaching activities that illustrate how EAP teachers or materials designers can use the list of lexical bundles in their practice.


Out of Corpora

Out of Corpora

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  • Author: Hasselgård
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004653686
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 377

Main headings: Introduction. - I. Representing language use. - II. Grammar and lexis in English corpora. - III. Contrastive and translation studies. - IV. English abroad. - List of Stig Johansson's publications (selection).


Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing

Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing

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  • Author: Ute Römer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027261458
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts from a variety of academic disciplines (and sub-disciplines) and of different academic registers. Particularly novel aspects of the collection are the inclusion of research that combines rhetorical moves with multi-dimensional analysis, studies that cover both fixed and variable phraseological items (lexical bundles, phrase-frames, constructions), and work that is based on corpora of English as an academic lingua franca. Going beyond merely summarizing their findings, the authors also discuss what their research means for academic writing practice and pedagogical settings. The volume will be of interest to researchers, students, and teachers who would like to expand their knowledge of how academic writing functions and what it looks like in a variety of contexts.


Formulaic Sequences

Formulaic Sequences

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  • Author: Norbert Schmitt
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781588115003
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.


Biomedical English

Biomedical English

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  • Author: Isabel Verdaguer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027271925
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 230

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching and learning of prototypical multiword units of meaning in biomedical discourse, and view written scientific English through the lens of such diverse fields as phraseology, metaphor, gender and discourse analysis. The research presented in this book forms the theoretical and methodological foundation of SciE-Lex, a lexical database of collocations and prefabricated expressions designed to help scientists write scientific papers in English accurately. The concluding chapter on FrameNet addresses frame semantics, whose application to the cross-linguistic study of scientific language will open new and promising avenues of research in the study of specialized languages.


Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner

Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner

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  • Author: Svetlana Vetchinnikova
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108499805
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 285

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer's choice of words.


Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish

Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish

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  • Author: Sergi Torner Castells
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315455234
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402

This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. Section 1 offers a presentation of the main theoretical and descriptive approaches to collocation. Section 2 explores collocation from the point of view of its lexicographical representation, while Section 3 offers a pedagogical perspective. Section 4 surveys current research on collocation in Catalan, Galician and Basque. Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish will be of interest to students of Hispanic linguistics.


Academic Discourse

Academic Discourse

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  • Author: Ken Hyland
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1441192042
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 227

Academic discourse is a rapidly growing area of study, attracting researchers and students from a diverse range of fields. This is partly due to the growing awareness that knowledge is socially constructed through language and partly because of the emerging dominance of English as the language of scholarship worldwide. Large numbers of students and researchers must now gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses to understand their disciplines, establish their careers and to successfully navigate their learning. This accessible and readable book shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, offering a clear description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This unique genre-based introduction to academic discourse will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.


University Language

University Language

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  • Author: Douglas Biber
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027222959
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements. While many previous studies have investigated academic writing, we know comparatively little about academic speech; and no linguistic study to date has investigated the range of academic and advising/management registers that students encounter. This book is a first step towards filling this gap. Based on analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus, the book describes university registers from several different perspectives, including: vocabularly patterns; the use of lexico-grammatical and syntactic features; the expression of stance; the use of extended collocations ('lexical bundles'); and a Multi-Dimensional analysis of the overall patterns of register variation. All linguistic patterns are interpreted in functional terms, resulting in an overall characterization of the typical kinds of language that students encounter in university registers: academic and non-academic; spoken and written.


Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics

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  • Author: Joanna Kopaczyk
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027264562
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the fundamental requirement of a theory-neutral starting point. This volume proposes the term pattern-driven as a more precise alternative. The chapters illustrate a variety of methods that fall under this broad methodology, such as the extraction of lexical bundles, POS-grams and semantic frames, and demonstrate how these approaches can uncover new understandings of both synchronic and diachronic linguistic phenomena.