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Lexical bundles in formulaic interpreting

Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2022
Abstract Inspired by Henriksen (2007), this article investigates some key characteristics of formulaic interpreting, understood as the recurrent use of linguistic formulae in interpreted texts. Using a Chinese-English corpus of consecutive interpreting in the political setting (CICPPC), the study quantitatively investigates some ...
Yang Li, Sandra L. Halverson
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Lexical bundles across disciplines

2020
Abstract This chapter reports on a study that examined over 700 four-word lexical bundles (Biber et al., 1999) identified from a multi-disciplinary corpus of over 25 million words from introductory courses across nine disciplines.
Randi Reppen, Shannon B. Olson
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Students’ use of lexical bundles

2020
Abstract This chapter presents the results of an investigation into the interaction between discipline and writing experience on lexical bundle (LB) production. The study compared the production of 4-word LBs by novice and expert ...
Ndeye Bineta Mbodj, Scott A. Crossley
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Lexical bundles in Biology

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in a corpus of textbooks and a corpus of research articles in Biology. The study includes the main biological disciplines and focuses on three major features: the overall distribution of bundles, their typical structures, and their
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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 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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Typicality of Lexical Bundles in Different Sections of Scientific Articles

2020 2nd Symposium on Signal Processing Systems, 2020
This paper proposes a method to quantify the typicality of lexical bundles in sections of academic articles, specifically in the field of Natural Language Processing papers. Typicality is defined as the product of individual KL-divergence scores and the probability of a bundle to appear in a type of section.
Haotong Wang   +2 more
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Lexical bundles in conversation across Englishes

English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, 2019
AbstractThis study adoptsNelson’s (2014)methodological framework to investigate core and peripheral lexical bundles (i.e. recurrent multi-word sequences) in conversation, using data from the British, Canadian, Singapore, and Hong Kong components of theInternational Corpus of English(ICE). The overlap and non-overlap comparisons reveal (dis)similarities
Zeping Huang, Gavin Bui
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Lexical bundles in university course materials

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2019
Abstract The present study compared 4-word lexical bundles found in a general engineering corpus (2,030,000 words) with those found in a corpus of texts collected from a Pathway engineering course for ESL (English as a Second Language) students (356,000 words) and a corpus of pedagogical materials used to teach advanced ESL students at an intensive ...
Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker, Anthony Becker
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