A Study on the Use of Lexical Bundles in Native and Nonnative English Academic Writing

分析母語者與非母語者於英文學術論文中之詞串使用

許嘉文(Jia-Wen Kelly Hsu) ； 陳浩然(Hao-Jan Howard Chen) ； 楊定瑜(Ting-Yu Christine Yang) ； 劉貞妤(Chen-Yu Liu)

《英語教學期刊》 41卷2期 (2017/06) Pp. 55-98

https://doi.org/10.6330/ETL.2017.41.2.03

摘要

Lexical bundle studies have attracted much interest recently. Many studies have examined how nonnative speakers employ bundles in their language production but few studies have explored discipline-specific bundles in the field of applied linguistics. This study thus aims to investigate how non-native speakers in the field of applied linguistics employ discipline-specific bundles. The data includes three corpora: a 1-million-word expert writer corpus, a 1.8-million-word nonnative-speaker (NNS) writer corpus, and a 1.8-million-word native-speaker (NS) writer corpus. Bundles identified in the corpora were categorized based on functions. Findings include: (1) Expert writers used 118 types of bundles, whereas NNS and NS writers used 197 and 115 types respectively. Yet, only 41 types were shared by all. (2) The distributions of bundle usage patterns were similar for the expert writers and the NS writers. (3) Although the NNS group used more bundle types, 121 types were not found in either the expert or NS groups. (4) The three corpora had similar functional distributions, with research-oriented bundles being the most common, followed by text-oriented and participant-oriented bundles. (5) NNS writers tended to rely on certain bundles to specify research topics and results, but they didn’t seem to have a good command of participant-oriented bundles.

關鍵字

corpus-based analysis ； lexical bundles ； English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

並列摘要

本研究基以應用語言學領域，探究專業期刊語料庫、非母語者與母語者寫作語料庫之詞串使用。將詞串依功能分類後發現：(1)專業作者、非母語者、母語者各使用了118、197、115種詞串，僅41個詞串為三語料庫共有；(2)專業作者與母語者於詞串選用上相似；(3)儘管非母語者使用較多詞串，但有121個詞串未出現於另兩個語料庫；(4)研究導向為最常用之詞串類別；(5)非母語者相對依賴某些特定詞串用以說明研究主題與結果，然較不熟悉參與導向詞串之使用。

並列關鍵字

語料庫研究 ； 詞串 ； 學術英文

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