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
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Abstract
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).
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) > H1-99 Social sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Kemanusiaan (School of Humanities) > International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC) Koleksi Penganjuran Persidangan (Conference Collection) > International Conference on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC) |
| Depositing User: | Puan Sukmawati Muhamad |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2019 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2019 08:22 |
| URI: | http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/45729 |
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