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Lexical bundles in an advanced INTOCSU writing class and engineering texts: a functional analysis

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dc.contributor.authorAlquraishi, Mohammed Abdulrahman, author
dc.contributor.authorFlahive, Douglas, advisor
dc.contributor.authorBecker, Anthony, committee member
dc.contributor.authorVogl, Mary, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T06:36:58Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T06:36:58Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate the functions of lexical bundles in two corpora: a corpus of engineering academic texts and a corpus of IEP advanced writing class texts. This study is concerned with the nature of formulaic language in Pathway IEPs and engineering texts, and whether those types of texts show similar or distinctive formulaic functions. Moreover, the study looked into lexical bundles found in an engineering 1.26 million-word corpus and an ESL 65000-word corpus using a concordancing program. The study then analyzed the functions of those lexical bundles and compared them statistically using chi-square tests. Additionally, the results of this investigation showed 236 unique frequent lexical bundles in the engineering corpus and 37 bundles in the pathway corpus. Also, the study identified several differences between the density and functions of lexical bundles in the two corpora. These differences were evident in the distribution of functions of lexical bundles and the minimal overlap of lexical bundles found in the two corpora. The results of this study call for more attention to formulaic language at ESP and EAP programs.
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dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierAlquraishi_colostate_0053N_12455.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/83876
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectcorpus linguistics
dc.subjectlexical bundles
dc.subjectfunctional analysis
dc.subjectformulaic language
dc.titleLexical bundles in an advanced INTOCSU writing class and engineering texts: a functional analysis
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thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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