Candarli, D orcid.org/0000-0001-9965-7835 and Jones, S (2019) Paradigmatic influences on lexical bundles in research articles in the discipline of education. Corpora, 14 (2). pp. 237-263. ISSN 1755-1676
Abstract
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. Four-word lexical bundles were examined 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 paradigm on the use of lexical bundles when writing research articles for English medium journals in the discipline of education.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019, Edinburgh University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Corpora. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | lexical bundles; academic writing; paradigmatic influences; education |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2018 13:58 |
Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2019 10:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/cor.2019.0170 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138429 |