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Lexical bundles across four legal genres

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2013
Legal language is often said to be formulaic, but little research is available on the nature of frequently occurring sequences of words in different legal genres. This article investigates the lexical bundles found in four legal corpora: academic law, case law, legislation, and documents.
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Lexical items and feature bundling

2016
Abstract This chapter investigates a puzzle posed by traditional and contemporary approaches to the lexicon: words (lexical items) are conceived of as both complex and atomic units. Such puzzle has been the focus of much research, with consequences for the overall architecture of grammar, the debate between decompositionalists and ...
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Lexical bundles in spoken academic ELF

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2017
AbstractThis corpus-based study explored the effects of two factors – genre (i.e. speech event type) and disciplinary variation – on spoken academic ELF, from the perspective of lexical bundles (i.e. recurrent word combinations). The material was drawn from a corpus of transcribed spoken academic lingua franca English (ELFA). The investigation involved
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Lexical Bundle Distributions across Two Learner Corpora

Yixin Publisher, 2023
The current study investigates the distribution patterns of lexical bundles from two corpora of argumentative writing by Chinese EFL learners. The bundles were extracted using the corpus linguistics tool AntConc and categorized by frequency and functions.
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Lexical bundle distribution in university classroom talk

2010
The present study investigates the relationship between the discourse functions of lexical bundles found in classroom teaching and their position. Eighty-four lexical bundles, frequently occurring four-word combinations identified earlier in university classroom talk (Biber, Conrad, and Cortes, 2004), are tracked in the first six Vocabulary-Based ...
Eniko Csomay, Viviana Cortes
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A lexical bundle approach to comparing languages

Languages in Contrast, 2014
Contrastive studies of phraseology have tended to focus on figurative units, such as idioms and metaphors, and paid comparatively less attention to less colourful types of units such as collocations and lexical bundles, which are equally, if not more, worthy of study.
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Lexical Bundles in Swedish Secondary School Textbooks

2014
The present paper describes the process of identifying lexical bundles, i.e., frequently recurring word sequences such as by means of and in the end of, in secondary school history and physics textbooks. In its determination of finding genuine lexical bundles, i.e. the word boundaries between lexical bundles and surrounding arbitrary words, it proposes
Judy Ribeck, Lars Borin
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Lexical bundles in engineering research articles

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential and impact of using analyses of lexical bundles to support Thai engineering students in learning to write research articles, as well as to develop a sample of materials for engineering students to use when writing research articles.
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Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983

2017
Abstract This paper aims to identify and trace the development of four-word lexical bundles characterising news discourse, using a corpus of news articles published in The Times of London between 1784 and 1983. In terms of frequency, there has been an increase until the end of the nineteenth century, followed then by a ...
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Lexical Bundles in Eap

2022
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