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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2021.21.11.426

Functional Lexical Bundles in Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Articles  

Nam, Daehyeon (사이버한국외국어대학교 영어학부)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.21, no.11, 2021 , pp. 426-435 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to functionally classify lexical bundles appearing in academic papers on nuclear science and engineering written in English and then analyze the lexical bundles' characteristics compared to those appearing in general academic papers. To this end, the texts of nuclear science and engineering papers were collected and produced as a corpus(c. 1 mil. tokens). Then they were statistically compared through Chi-square tests and standardized residuals with the corpus of general academic papers(c. 750,000 tokens). The results revealed that, compared to general academic papers, the bundles in the stance lexical bundle category were mainly used among the functional lexical bundle in nuclear science and engineering. The use of the lexical bundles lacked much variety. The same type of lexical bundles was 're-used' and 'recycled'. Based on these research results, educational implications for English for Academic Purposes and the further direction of follow-up research were discussed and suggested.
Keywords
Corpus; Lexical Bundle; Nuclear Science and Engineering; English for Academic Purposes; English for Science and Technology;
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