Formulaic language in vocational written discourse: learner corpus analysis
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The aim of the research is to find what lexical bundles and their rhetoric functions are used in students’ essays. Subsequently, what the doctoral students´ objective needs are for a development of their communicative skills in English language in writing academic vocational texts. The scope of the study is determined by two corpora. A sub-corpus of argumentative essays by native speakers in British Academic Written English Corpus (BAWE) is compared with a learner corpus of argumentative essays written by doctoral students in the disciplines of product/industrial design, audio-visual studies and photography. Frequency of use and the three types of rhetoric functions in four-word bundles are analysed and compared across the two corpora. The research findings partially confirm the results obtained from previous work in written corpora of academic writing across disciplines and in learners´ writing which was carried out by Flowerdew (1998, 2004, 2014, 2015), Henry & Rosenberry (2001), Hyland & Hamp-Lyons (2002), Hyland (2008a, 2008b, 2008c, 2017), Chang (2012). |
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