Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines

Groom, Nicholas

doi:10.1057/9780230244290_8

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“…The main variable in focus in this study, discipline, has been established as one of the major determinants of variation in academic writing in general (e.g. Bazerman 1981, Becher & Trowler 1998, Hyland 2000, Fløttum et al 2006, Groom 2009, Hiltunen 2010). Hyland (2008a) has further shown that bundle repertoires vary considerably between different disciplines in published academic writing, and more recently Durrant (2015) has demonstrated that the use of lexical bundles varies across disciplinary divisions.…”

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Lexical bundles in Wikipedia articles and related texts

Hiltunen¹

2018

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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Wikipedia is widely used by academics and students in higher education, but research on the linguistic characteristics of this genre is scarce (Kuteeva 2016). This paper explores the usefulness of lexical bundles as an analytical tool to describe disciplinary variation within Wikipedia articles, and to contrast Wikipedia writing with two neighbouring genres, student essays and research articles. The results indicate that the occurrence of lexical bundles in Wikipedia varies between disciplines, which is in broad agreement with previous studies on other academic genres. The analysis of bundles also suggests that a credible authorial persona is less crucial to Wikipedia articles. Indicative of this is the low frequency of bundles indicating stance and engagement, which are characteristic of professional academic writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a).

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Lexical bundles in Wikipedia articles and related texts

Hiltunen¹

2018

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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“…Keywords are words which show a high frequency of occurrence compared to a reference corpus (Bondi & Scott, 2010;Scott, 2014;Scott & Tribble, 2006). Keyword analysis, as a form of qualitative analysis, can help identify the significance of lexis in a given set of academic texts (Groom, 2009) and is beneficial in terms of establishing "a clear understanding of colligational and collocational relationships which generically significant words take on in the discourse" (Tribble, 2013: 137). Analysing keywords has increasingly become of interest in the study of the evaluative features of discourse, and in sketching the lexico-grammatical resources of the texts studied (Martin & White, 2005).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Keywords not only indicate the significance and importance of lexis to the texts described (Tribble, 2013), but also often provide "a way of identifying which words best distinguish the texts of a particular author or group of authors from another" (Hyland, 2012: 68). In addition, they are closely associated with the disciplinary cultures, assumptions, and value systems in academic discourse (Groom, 2009). Research on keywords is extensive across various genre types (see Scott, 2014), with a number of studies comparing their use in the soft and hard science domains and demonstrating that differences do in fact exist (e.g.…”

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Audioslide Presentations as an Appendant Genre - Key Words, Personal Pronouns, Stance and Engagement

Yang¹

2017

ESP Today

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Due to the competitiveness in academic settings and the convenience of technological platforms, several genres have been designed to promote research. The current research studies audioslide presentations, one of the novel academic appendant genres to promote its host genre, research articles. The corpus includes the spoken transcripts collected from oral presentations in the hard science domains and written by expert scholars. We aimed to identify the structure of the presentations, generate keywords used in the talks with reference to an academic spoken English corpus and a daily English speech corpus, and examine how authorial stance and audience engagement are shown in the presentations by employing personal pronouns. The results demonstrate that the speakers tend to highlight the existence of knowledge gaps and the research designs of the investigations, rather than emphasising the findings. Keywords are also used slightly differently compared to different reference corpora, namely, BNC and BASE. In addition, projecting self-presence is much more prevalent than engaging the audience, and the use of the personal pronouns was found to differ from the assumed knowledge in written texts. This poses the question of whether a promotional text as an appendant genre should be treated as its host genre with an implicit promotional voice.

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“…Scholars in our discipline have investigated the linguistic properties of the genre (e.g. (Diani, 2009); (Groom, 2009); (Hyland andTse, 2007, 2009), and from one such study a previous editor of Applied Linguistics concludes that: … despite their length and distinct purpose . .…”

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Book Reviews and Forum Contributions in Applied Linguistics—Continuity and Change

Sealey

2015

Applied Linguistics

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Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Lexical bundles in Wikipedia articles and related texts

Lexical bundles in Wikipedia articles and related texts

Audioslide Presentations as an Appendant Genre - Key Words, Personal Pronouns, Stance and Engagement

Book Reviews and Forum Contributions in Applied Linguistics—Continuity and Change

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