Corpus Study of Lexical Bundles: Journalistic Discourse in Focus  

Oleh:

Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid ; Rafiee, Marzieh

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 7 no. 3 (2011), page 59-78.
Topik: lexical bundles; journalistic discourse; newspaper text types; referential bundles
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One of the prerequisites of fluent language is the use of fixed or standard forms of expression. During the last century, the study of these building blocks has attracted the attention of many linguists and researchers. One of the terms assigned to these frequently used expressions is lexical bundles. This paper aims to investigate the use of lexical bundles in newspapers. It aims to shed more light on the frequency of occurrence and distribution of functional and structural types of lexical bundles and their probable relations as used by Iranian journalists. For this purpose, 680 pages of the newspaper Iran Daily were selected to form a corpus. Lexical bundles were identified with the use of a computer program, and then their structures and functions were described. The findings reveal that lexical bundles employed in journalistic materials are mostly used in the same way as academic writing in terms of structural distribution. As regards their functional types, the study shows that in this register, referential bundles occur more frequently than the other two groups of bundles, namely discourse organizers and stance bundles.

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