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- Stance in unpublished student writing 255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