Frequency and structure of Indonesian lexical bundles on academic prose in legal studies: A driven-corpus approach

Abstract

Lexical bundles are important elements in academic writing. Lexical bundles have been defined as combination of three or more words which are identified in a corpus of natural language by means of corpus analysis program. Every register has their own characteristics. This study aims to describe the frequency and structure of lndonesian lexical bundles on academic prose in legal studies. In this study, the identification of lexical bundles uses a frequency cutoff of 40 per million word that occurs at least within 5 different texts using AntConc computer program. The corpus compiled comprises 2,054,312 words, taken from four genres, i.e. undergraduate thesis, thesis, dissertation and journal article of legal studies. The results reveal that there are 475 lexical bundles, ranging from three to seven words, and mostly composed in three-word combination, such as oleh karena itu 'because of that', dalam hal ini 'in this case' and yang dilakukan oleh 'which is done by'. Among the four types of academic prose, journal article has the highest number of lexical bundles. In addition to the structural classification, it is found that the corpus has around 68,25 percent incomplete structures of phrase and clause. The patterns of yang + verb + prepositional phrase fragments (e.g., yang diatur dalam, yang ditetapkan oleh, yang berhubungan dengan); noun phrase + yang-relative clause fragments (e.g., alat bukti yang, aturan hukum yang, hukum pidana yang, ketentuan hukum yang); preposition + noun phrase fragments (dalam jangka waktu, dalam ketentuan pasal, dalam undang-undang nomor) are commonly used in this register.

STRUKTUR DAN FUNGSI GUGUS LEKSIKAL DALAM TEKS PERATURAN PERUNDANG-UNDANGAN, SURAT RESMI, DAN SURAT BISNIS (Structure and Function of Lexical Bundles in Legal Texts, Formal Letters, and Business Letters)

“…Sementara itu, penelitian mengenai lexical bundles dalam bahasa Indonesia masih sangat terbatas. Salah satu penelitian mengenai lexical bundles dalam bahasa Indonesia dengan menggunakan korpus register tulisan akademik dilakukan oleh (Budiwiyanto & Suhardijanto, 2020). Penelitian tersebut dilakukan untuk mengetahui frekuensi dan menganalisis struktur lexical bundles dalam skripsi, tesis, disertasi, dan artikel jurnal di bidang hukum.…”

Lexical Bundles in Educational, Science and Political Articles in the International Journal Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

“…This study uses a corpus-based analysis that composes a special small corpus consisting of 161 student essays on linguistic topics. And the third article is the Indonesian Lexical Collection in Research Articles: Frequency, Structure, and Function [5]. This study aims to determine the characteristics of the Indonesian lexical bundle which includes frequency, structure, and function in research articles.…”