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A multi-dimensional view of collocations in academic writing

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the identification of the major sets of interrelated collocations in academic writing across different disciplines, or dimensions of collocation. A corpus of textbooks and research articles from Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, containing 10.6 million words across 230 texts was analyzed using a collocational multi-dimensional analysis framework (Berber Sardinha 2017). Results show four dimensions of collocation for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, namely: (1) Human Nature, Culture and Research Methods vs. Economics; (2) Human Evolution and Society; (3) Business and Finance; and (4) Statistics. The chapter highlights a methodology for identifying collocational patterns through multi-dimensional analysis, and contributes to a better understanding of academic writing in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Abstract

This chapter discusses the identification of the major sets of interrelated collocations in academic writing across different disciplines, or dimensions of collocation. A corpus of textbooks and research articles from Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, containing 10.6 million words across 230 texts was analyzed using a collocational multi-dimensional analysis framework (Berber Sardinha 2017). Results show four dimensions of collocation for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, namely: (1) Human Nature, Culture and Research Methods vs. Economics; (2) Human Evolution and Society; (3) Business and Finance; and (4) Statistics. The chapter highlights a methodology for identifying collocational patterns through multi-dimensional analysis, and contributes to a better understanding of academic writing in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Focus on writer expertise and nativeness status
  5. A corpus-based study of academic word use in EFL student writing 9
  6. Give constructions in Korean EFL learner writing 33
  7. A corpus-based exploration of constructions in written academic English as a lingua franca 59
  8. The influence of sources on First-Year Composition L1 student writing 89
  9. Students’ use of lexical bundles 115
  10. Part II. Focus on disciplinary variation
  11. Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis 137
  12. Lexical bundles across disciplines 169
  13. Lexical bundles as reflections of disciplinary norms in Spanish and English literary criticism, history, and psychology research 183
  14. Adjectives as nominal pre-modifiers in chemistry and applied linguistics research articles 205
  15. The use of lexical patterns in engineering 227
  16. Stance in unpublished student writing 255
  17. Part III. Focus on register variation
  18. P-frames and rhetorical moves in applied linguistics conference abstracts 281
  19. Stand-alone literature reviews 307
  20. A multi-dimensional view of collocations in academic writing 333
  21. Name index 355
  22. Subject index 357
Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing
This chapter is in the book Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.95.14zup

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Focus on writer expertise and nativeness status
  5. A corpus-based study of academic word use in EFL student writing 9
  6. Give constructions in Korean EFL learner writing 33
  7. A corpus-based exploration of constructions in written academic English as a lingua franca 59
  8. The influence of sources on First-Year Composition L1 student writing 89
  9. Students’ use of lexical bundles 115
  10. Part II. Focus on disciplinary variation
  11. Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis 137
  12. Lexical bundles across disciplines 169
  13. Lexical bundles as reflections of disciplinary norms in Spanish and English literary criticism, history, and psychology research 183
  14. Adjectives as nominal pre-modifiers in chemistry and applied linguistics research articles 205
  15. The use of lexical patterns in engineering 227
  16. Stance in unpublished student writing 255
  17. Part III. Focus on register variation
  18. P-frames and rhetorical moves in applied linguistics conference abstracts 281
  19. Stand-alone literature reviews 307
  20. A multi-dimensional view of collocations in academic writing 333
  21. Name index 355
  22. Subject index 357
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