scholarly journals Indonesian lexical bundles in research articles: Frequency, structure, and function

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-303
Author(s):  
Adi Budiwiyanto ◽  
Totok Suhardijanto
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Discourse Function ◽  
Frequency Structure ◽  
And Function ◽  
Lexical Bundle

Recent studies show that lexical bundles in English are pervasively found in academic discourse. In addition, the characteristics of lexical bundles found vary and differ across registers and genres. Nevertheless, it is still interesting to carry out in languages other than English. This study aims to discover the characteristics of Indonesian lexical bundles that cover frequency, structure, and function in research articles. This study adopted a mixed-method. Identification of the lexical bundle was carried out using WordSmith 7.0 on a corpus comprising 3,125,546 words, taken from 1126 texts, and consisting of six disciplines. With a frequency threshold of 40 per million words and a minimum distribution of 5 texts, 197 lexical bundles have been obtained, consisting of three- to six-word bundles with a total occurrence of 51,813 times. In terms of structure, the incomplete structure is dominating the bundles by 78.7%, with a total frequency of occurrence 38,749 times. This research finds that the pattern of lexical bundles can be classified into five types: noun-based, prepositional-based, verb-based, adjective-based, and clause-based bundles. Lexical bundles in research articles are generally clause-based (49.2%). This indicates that Indonesian lexical bundles vary in structure. The use of clause fragments and passive verbs are the main features in this genre. In terms of the discourse function, research-oriented bundles are the functions that are commonly used, while participant-oriented bundles are the least. Each discourse function has its own structural characteristics. It is also found that one lexical bundle can have two functional categories. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the characteristics of written academic discourse. From the pedagogical point of view, the findings can be used as learning material for both native and non-native speakers.

scholarly journals Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education

Corpora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-263
Author(s):  
Duygu Candarli ◽  
Steven Jones
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Novice Writers ◽  
English Academic Writing

Lexical bundles are pervasive in English academic writing; however, little scholarly attention has been paid to how quantitative and qualitative research paradigms influence the use of lexical bundles in research articles. In order to investigate this, we created two equal-size corpora of research articles in the discipline of education. We examined four-word lexical bundles in terms of their structural characteristics and discourse functions in the quantitative and qualitative research articles published in international English-medium journals. We attribute intra-disciplinary variations in the use of lexical bundles to the knowledge-making practices that are specific to quantitative and qualitative research articles. This paper provides further evidence that the research article is not a unitary construct. The results have implications for academic writing, and corpus building and design in academic discourse. One of the key implications of this study is that L2 novice writers need to take into account the influences of research paradigms on the use of lexical bundles when writing research articles for English-medium journals in the discipline of education.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles Used by Native and Non-native Scholars

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Gungor ◽  
Hacer Hande Uysal
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Knowledge ◽  
Formulaic Sequences ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Lexical Bundle ◽  
L1 And L2

<p>In the recent years, globalization prepared a ground for English to be the lingua franca of the academia. Thus, most highly prestigious international journals have defined their medium of publications as English. However, even advanced language learners have difficulties in writing their research articles due to the lack of appropriate lexical knowledge and discourse conventions of academia. Considering the fact that the underuse, overuse and misuse of formulaic sequences or lexical bundles are often characterized with non-native writers of English, lexical bundle studies have recently been on the top of the agenda of corpus studies. Although the related literature has represented specific genres or disciplines, no study has scrutinized lexical bundles in the research articles that are written in the educational sciences. Therefore, the current study compared the structural and functional characteristics of the lexical-bundle use in L1 and L2 research articles in English. The results revealed the deviation of the usages of lexical bundles by the non-native speakers of English from the native speaker norms. Furthermore, the results indicated the overuse of clausal or verb-phrase based lexical bundles in the research articles of Turkish scholars while their native counterparts used noun and prepositional phrase-based lexical bundles more than clausal bundles.</p>

scholarly journals Hard or Soft Science? Conceptualizing Educational Technology through a Lexical Bundle Analytical Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Chih-Wei Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Educational Technology Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Lexical Bundle

An ongoing discussion on the disciplinary nature of educational technology has been taking place for years. Some view this discipline from the perspective of instructional design and implementation, whereas others conceptualize it from the perspective of media, tool, and system. This study examined educational technology from the perspective of language use by empirically investigating a special sequence of words, referred to as lexical bundles, in educational technology research articles. It aims to capture the distinctive nature of educational technology as soft technology and examine possible associations of educational technology with relevant disciplines. Employing a text analysis tool of AntConc 3.4.3, the researcher compiled a corpus encompassing 323 research articles from six journals with approximately 2.1 million words to identify lexical bundles. All identified bundles were analyzed and further compared with past relevant studies based on the number of different bundles, the content of bundles, and the grammatical structure of bundles. It was found that educational technology as an inter-discipline resembles much more soft science fields in terms of the content and structural categories of bundles. This study not only contributes to a better conceptual understanding of the nature of educational technology but offers a pedagogically beneficial bundle list for informing academic writing instruction in this field.

The textual colligation of stance phraseology in cross-disciplinary academic discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihua Dong ◽  
Louisa Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Similar Distribution ◽  
Discourse Function

AbstractThis study investigates the textual colligation of stance phrases at the levels of sentence, paragraph and text in empirical research articles from agriculture and economics. We extracted the textual positions of stance phrases with the softwareWordskew(Barlow, 2016) in two purpose-built corpora of around three million tokens. The results show that stance phrases display similar distribution patterns in the two disciplinary corpora; however, we found significant differences with respect to the frequency of stance phrases in particular textual positions in each corpus. The findings consolidateHoey’s (2005)premise that certain expressions are primed to occur in particular textual positions. We contend that the textual positions of stance phrases may be a result of the routinised discourse function that they serve, and that the appropriate timing of stance-taking is of particular communicative importance.

Lexical bundles in Biology

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-513
Author(s):  
Purificación Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Lexical Bundle

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 functions in discourse in Biology. The findings support the idea that lexical bundles are a basic linguistic construct with important functions for the construction of discourse in this area. Concluding discussion highlights the pedagogical implications of using research journals and/or textbooks to teach English to biologists in a second language context. Furthermore, the importance of explicit instruction in these word combinations in courses on English for Biologists is emphasized.

Comparing lexical bundles across the introduction, method and results sections of the research article

Corpora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hesamoddin Shahriari
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Functional Categories ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Token Frequency ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Functional Differences ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
And Function

Despite the prolific amount of research into the discourse structure of the research article (RA), comparisons between the different sections of this important register have been extremely rare. This study is an attempt to analyse the structure and form of three main sections of the RA (i.e., Introduction, Method and Results) through examining the frequency, structure and function of lexical bundles found within each. By comparing the three sections, a better understanding of in-text linguistic variation (i.e., differences in the use of lexical bundles across the three sections) can be achieved. For this purpose, a corpus of 200 research articles in applied linguistics, segmented into the three sections noted above, was compiled. A list of four-word lexical bundles occurring at least thirty times per million words in the overall, one million-word corpus was made. Subsequently, each of the three sub-corpora was searched for any of the bundles on the list. The findings reveal the Results to be the most densely formulaic part of the RA, both in terms of the type/token frequency of bundles and the number of unique bundles that were not seen in any of the other sections. This section of the RA also included longer sequences of bundles than any other part. Structural and functional differences were also discovered among the three sections; some of these differences, especially in the distribution of various functional categories, indicated the existence of a close relationship between the discourse aims of a given section and the lexical bundles that are most characteristic of that part of the RA.

scholarly journals Molecular Packing in Network-Forming Collagens

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 558-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Knupp ◽  
John M. Squire
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Molecular Packing ◽  
Abundant Protein ◽  
Type Iv ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Collagen Molecules ◽  
Weight Structure ◽  
Egg Case ◽  
And Function

Collagen is the most abundant protein among vertebrates and occurs in virtually all multicellular animals. Collagen molecules are classified into 21 different types and differ in their sequence, weight, structure, and function, but they can be broadly subdivided into families. Type IV, VI, VIII, X, and dogfish egg case collagens belong to the network-forming family. Here, we summarise what is known about the way these collagen molecules pack to form networks. In addition the main structural characteristics of the network-forming collagens are compared and discussed.

scholarly journals A Review on the Structure and Anti-Diabetic (Type 2) Functions of β-Glucans

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Yujun Wan ◽  
Xiaojuan Xu ◽  
Robert G. Gilbert ◽  
Mitchell A. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Disease ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Additional Structure ◽  
Diabetic Type ◽  
And Function ◽  
Instrumental Methods

Type 2 diabetes, a long-term chronic metabolic disease, causes severe and increasing economic and health problems globally. There is growing evidence that β-glucans can function as bioactive macromolecules that help control type 2 diabetes with minimal side effects. However, conflicting conclusions about the antidiabetic activities of β-glucans have been published, potentially resulting from incomplete understanding of their precise structural characteristics. This review aims to increase clarity on the structure–function relationships of β-glucans in treating type 2 diabetes by examining detailed structural and conformational features of naturally derived β-glucans, as well as both chemical and instrumental methods used in their characterization, and their underlying anti-diabetic mechanisms. This may help to uncover additional structure and function relationships and to expand applications of β-glucans.

scholarly journals LEXICAL BUNDLES AND MOVES IN RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS OF DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES

2020 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Purificacion Sánchez Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Research Article ◽  
And Function

ABSTRACTMuch has been published about abstracts as a written genre and less attention has been paid to lexical bundles and “moves” in the abstracts of different disciplines.  The purpose of this paper is to select the most common lexical bundles of abstracts in four different fields of knowledge, analyse their structure and function and classify them according to the “moves” they perform. 210 abstracts of 4 different disciplines were collected and the lexical bundles extracted were analysed. The results reveal important differences associated to disciplinary variation in the types of bundles, their structure and function and in the structure of the moves. These finding suggest that disciplinary variation should be considered in academic writing courses. 

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