EFFECT OF JOURNAL CATEGORY ON DISTRIBUTION OF PROTOTYPICAL TEXT-ORIENTED LEXICAL BUNDLES: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLES
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This study intends to assess the Prototypical Text-Oriented Lexical Bundles (henceforth, PTOLBs) in a quantitative research article to determine whether there are any changes in the journal categories research articles of multiple disciplines. The taxonomy of functional categories developed by Hyland (2008b) includes the categories of Text-Oriented Lexical Bundles (as known as, TOLBs) which were later modified by Salazar (2011) in terms of prototypicality. The study examined how these PTOLBs are distributed concerning journal ratings by HEC's HJRS research articles. Based on these goals, the study chose five major disciplines, 11 subjects, and 2576 Research Articles’ sections. There are approximately 3 million words data is used in this corpus-based study. The frequency of PTOLBs was retrieved using the AntConc software. The distribution of PTOLBs in RAs was investigated initially using a 3-factor MANOVA but later on, due to the lack of normal distribution, shifted to the Kruskal-Walis H Test and post hoc test. This study showed that in journal categories, Y with W and X showed a significant difference on the base of the Objective Lexical Bundles’ subcategory. The findings will provide SL students with an understanding of how to use linguistic elements based on registers and effective writing. The examination of the distribution of PTOLBs conducted in this research might aid students in recognizing patterns and formulae that are often used in scholarly papers.
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Al-Shujairi, Y. B. J., Tan, H., Abdullah, A. N., Nimehchisalem, V., & Imm, L. G. (2020). Lexical bundles in the discussion section moves of high-impact medical research articles. Social Sciences & Humanities, 28(3), 2043-2061.
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Biber, D. (2009). A corpus-driven approach to formulaic language in English: Multi-word patterns in speech and writing. International journal of corpus linguistics, 14(3), 275-311.
Biber, D., & Barbieri, F. (2007). Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers. English for specific purposes, 26(3), 263–286.
Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Cortes, V. (2004). If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied linguistics, 25(3), 371-405.
Biber, D., Conrad, S., Reppen, R., Byrd, P., & Helt, M. (2002). Speaking and writing in the university: A multidimensional comparison. TESOL quarterly, 36(1), 9-48.
Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., & Finegan, E. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written English.
Biber, D., S. Conrad, and R. Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Budiwiyanto, A., & Suhardijanto, T. (2020). Indonesian lexical bundles in research articles: Frequency, structure, and function. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(2).
Callies, M. (2013). Agentivity as a determinant of lexico-grammatical variation in L2 academic writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18(3), 357-390.
Chen, Y., & Baker, P. (2010). Lexical bundles in L1 and L2 academic writing. Language learning & technology, 14(2), 30–49.
Cortes, V. (2004). Lexical bundles in published and student disciplinary writing: Examples from history and biology. English for specific purposes, 23(4), 397-423.
DeCarrico, J., & Nattinger, J. R. (1988). Lexical phrases for the comprehension of academic lectures. English for specific purposes, 7(2), 91-102.
Esfandiari, R., & Barbary, F. (2017). A contrastive corpus-driven study of lexical bundles between English writers and Persian writers in psychology research articles. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 29, 21-42.
Flowerdew, J. (2005). An integration of corpus-based and genre-based approaches to text analysis in EAP/ESP: Countering criticisms against corpus-based methodologies. English for Specific Purposes, 24(3), 321–332.
Geoffrey, R. K., Behruz, L. G., & Milad, M. (2022). A functional analysis of lexical bundles in the discussion sections of applied linguistics research articles: A cross-paradigm study. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 26(3), 625-644.
Ghorbani, A., Okati, F., & Lotfi Gaskaree, B. (2022). Lexical Bundles in the Conclusion Section of Research Articles in Applied Linguistics: A Comparative Study of International and Iranian Journals. Critical Applied Linguistics Studies, 1(1), 67-84.
Gledhill, C. (1995). Collocation and genre analysis. The discourse function of collocation in cancer research abstracts and articles. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1, 1-26.
Granger, S., & Paquot, M. (2008). Disentangling the phraseological web. S. Granger & Meunier (Eds.).
Gries, S. T. (2010). Useful Statistics for Corpus Linguistics. A Mosaic of Corpus Linguistics: Selected Approaches, 66: 269–291.
Güngör, F., & Uysal, H. H. (2020). Lexical bundle use and crosslinguistic influence in academic texts. Lingua, 242, 102859.
Hu, X., & Huang, Y. (2017). A contrastive study on the use of common high-frequency lexical bundles in different moves of English abstracts in Chinese and English engineering journals. For. Lang. Learn. Theory Pract, 4, 31-36.
Hyland, K. (2008a). Academic clusters: Text patterning in published and postgraduate writing. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 18(1), 41–62.
Hyland, K. (2008b). As can be seen: Lexical bundles and disciplinary variation. English for specific purposes, 27(1), 4-21.
Jalilifar, A., & Ghoreishi, S. M. (2018). From the perspective of: Functional analysis of lexical bundles in Applied Linguistics research articles. International Journal of English Studies, 18(2), 161-186.
Jian, H. U. (2008). The macrostructure and rhetorical structures of research articles in linguistics. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal, 5, 37–42.
Kanoksilapatham, B. (2005). Rhetorical structure of biochemistry research articles. English for Specific Purposes, 24(3), 269–292.
Kim, E. (2014). An Analysis of Move Patterns in Abstracts of Social Sciences Research Articles. Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society, 45(2), pp.283-309.
Kurniawan, E., & Haerunisa, Z. F. (2023). A comparative study of lexical bundles in accepted and rejected applied linguistic research article introductions. Studies in English Language and Education, 10(2), 628-648.
Liu, C. Y., & Chen, H. J. H. (2020). Functional variation of lexical bundles in academic lectures and TED talks. Register Studies, 2(2), 176-208.
Lu, X., & Deng, J. (2019). With the rapid development: A contrastive analysis of lexical bundles in dissertation abstracts by Chinese and L1 English doctoral students. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 39, 21-36.
Nekrasova, T. (2009). English L1 and L2 speakers’ knowledge of lexical bundles. Lang. Learn., 59, 674–68.
Oakey, D. (2002). A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines. Using corpora to explore linguistic variation, 111-129.
Pan, F., Reppen, R., & Biber, D. (2016). Comparing patterns of L1 versus L2 English academic professionals: Lexical bundles in Telecommunications research journals. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 100(21), 60-71.
Panah, E., Yunus, M. M., & Embi, M. A. (2013). Google-informed patter-hunting and pattern-defining: Implication for language pedagogy. Asian Social Science, 9(3), 229.
Qi, H., & Pan, F. (2020). Lexical bundle variation across moves in abstracts of medical research articles. Southern Afri. Ling. Appl. Lang. Stud., 38, 109–128.
Ren, J. (2021). Variability and functions of lexical bundles in research articles of applied linguistics and pharmaceutical sciences. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 50, 100968.
Ruiying, Y., & Allison, D. (2004). Research articles in applied linguistics: Structures from a functional perspective. English for specific Purposes, 23(3), 264-279.
Salazar, D. (2011). Lexical bundles in scientific English: A corpus-based study of native and nonnative writing [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Barcelona.
Salazar, D. (2014). Lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching (Vol. 65). John Benjamins Publishing Company
Segalowitz, N. (2010). Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency. Routledge.
Swales, J. (1990). Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings. Cambridge University Press.
Taieb, A. B., & Toumi, N. (2021). Exploring Conventionalized Phraseology in Advanced Academic Writing of Tunisian Linguistics Students: A Lexical Bundles Analysis. Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6(2), n2.
Titone, D. A., and Connine, C. M. (1999). On the compositional and non-compositional nature of idiomatic expressions. Journal of Pragmatics, 31(12), 1655–1674.
Varghaei, E., & Khodadadi, G. (2022). Comparing Lexical Bundles in Medical Research Article Abstracts of Iranian and Foreign Journals. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 22(3).
Wei, Y., & Lei, L. (2011). Lexical bundles in the academic writing of advanced Chinese EFL learners. RELC Journal, 42(2), 155-166.
Williams, G. (1998). Collocational networks: Interlocking patterns of lexis in a corpus of plant biology research articles. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 3(1), 151-171.
Williams, G. (2002). In search of representativity in specialised corpora: Categorisation through collocation. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 7(1), 43-64.
Wright, H. R. (2019). Lexical bundles in stand-alone literature reviews: Sections, frequencies, and functions. English for Specific Purposes, 54, 1-14.
Xia, D. (2022). Formulaic Sequences in Business and Academic Writing of English Learners (Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati).
Yang, M. (2022). Connecting the functions of lexical bundles and moves in published research articles: The case of developmental and educational psychology. Nordic journal of English studies.
Zare, J., & Valipouri, L. (2022). Lexical Bundles in Chemistry Research Articles. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 906641.