Abstract Lexical bundles are recurring frequent word combinations. Research has shown that lexical bundles vary in genre and register (Biber 2006; Biber, Conrad and Cortes 2004; Hyland 2008a, 2008b; Scott and Tribble 2006). However, the degree to which they vary by discipline remains inconclusive. The main aim of this paper is to establish whether lexical bundles are discipline specific, i.e., whether each discipline draws on a specialized lexical repertoire or whether there is a core vocabulary shared across various disciplines. For that purpose, maritime texts covering the subdomains marine engineering, navigation, maritime law and shipping have been collected so as to investigate the structure and function of lexical bundles and to find out how they shape meaning in specialized discourse. For the purposes of the study, a 7.4 M corpus consisting of two monolingual subcorpora and one bilingual subcorpus was compiled. This corpus can be used as a basis for further studies in the field. Furthermore, the paper discusses problems encountered while extracting N-grams from a corpus, as well as classification criteria for the identification of lexical bundles. The results show that lexical bundles identified in maritime texts are phrasal rather than clausal. The results also indicate that lexical bundles are discipline specific. Teaching these specialized features that shape discourse can improve students’ language production and should thus be the focus of instruction in ESP.
摘要词汇束是一种频繁出现的单词组合。研究表明，词汇束在体裁和语域上存在差异(Biber 2006;Biber, Conrad and Cortes 2004;海兰德2008a, 2008b;Scott and Tribble 2006)。然而，它们在多大程度上因学科而异仍然没有定论。本文的主要目的是确定词汇包是否与学科相关，即每个学科是否利用专门的词汇库，或者是否存在跨学科共享的核心词汇。为此，收集了涵盖海洋工程、航海、海事法和航运子领域的海事文本，以研究词汇束的结构和功能，并找出它们如何在专门话语中形成意义。为了研究的目的，编制了一个7.4 M的语料库，包括两个单语子语料库和一个双语子语料库。该语料库可作为该领域进一步研究的基础。此外，本文还讨论了从语料库中提取n -gram时遇到的问题，以及识别词束的分类标准。结果表明，海事语篇中的词汇束主要是短语而非小句。结果还表明，词汇束是特定学科的。教授这些塑造语篇的特殊特征可以提高学生的语言产出，因此应该成为ESP教学的重点。
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{"title":"Lilo Moessner. The history of the present English subjunctive: A corpus-based study of mood and modality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2020. 272 pp. ISBN 978 1 4744 3799 8","authors":"A. Borlongan","doi":"10.2478/icame-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"14 1","pages":"39 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89587741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tobias Bernaisch (ed.). Gender in World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv, 235 pp. ISBN: 978-1-108-48254-7","authors":"Anika Gerfer","doi":"10.2478/icame-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"12 1","pages":"33 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86708494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.). Corpora and the changing society. Studies in the evolution of English (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 96). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. 305 pp. ISBN 9789027205438 (HB)","authors":"Daniela Pettersson-Traba","doi":"10.2478/icame-2022-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2022-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"6 1","pages":"43 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88983115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The urgent need for new knowledge as a result of the CoViD-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in the amount of scientific writing on the topic. Various analyses of this phenomenon from different approaches have appeared thus far (Horbach 2020; Torres-Salinas 2020). However, less attention has been paid to the impact of this situation on the language of these studies, looking into whether the continued emergency affects authors’ conscious or unconscious linguistic choices, and if so, how. This article compares texts on CoViD with texts written during the previous MERS emergency and its aftermath, trying to find if texts on CoViD present particular linguistic features reflective of this situation of urgency. Results suggest that texts on CoViD do indeed exhibit particular linguistic features, and that these point to a preference for conveying immediate knowledge and a departure from rhetorical practices common in scientific writing.
{"title":"Writing science in urgent times: CoViD-19 and its impact on scientific writing","authors":"Luis Puente-Castelo, Isabel Moskowich","doi":"10.2478/icame-2022-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2022-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The urgent need for new knowledge as a result of the CoViD-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in the amount of scientific writing on the topic. Various analyses of this phenomenon from different approaches have appeared thus far (Horbach 2020; Torres-Salinas 2020). However, less attention has been paid to the impact of this situation on the language of these studies, looking into whether the continued emergency affects authors’ conscious or unconscious linguistic choices, and if so, how. This article compares texts on CoViD with texts written during the previous MERS emergency and its aftermath, trying to find if texts on CoViD present particular linguistic features reflective of this situation of urgency. Results suggest that texts on CoViD do indeed exhibit particular linguistic features, and that these point to a preference for conveying immediate knowledge and a departure from rhetorical practices common in scientific writing.","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"13 1","pages":"19 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89645114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee (eds.). Learner corpora and language teaching (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 92). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2019. iv+267 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 0236 9.","authors":"S. De Cock","doi":"10.2478/icame-2021-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"215 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84043035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex systems for corpus linguists","authors":"W. Kretzschmar","doi":"10.2478/icame-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"63 5 1","pages":"155 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89834500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses the frequency distribution of the types of if-conditionals recognised in the corpus-based classification developed in Gabrielatos (2010: 230-265). It is pertinent to mention at the outset that if-conditionals have been estimated to account for about 80 per cent of all conditional constructions in written British English (Gabrielatos 2010: 49). The classification was partly adapted from Quirk et al. (1985: 1072-1097), and was based on two interrelated criteria: a) the nature of the link between the two parts of a conditional, (henceforth, protasis and apodosis) and b) the modal nature of the apodosis. The quantitative analysis discussed here provides insights into the nature of each type, and the ways that the interaction of the type of link between protasis and apodosis, and the type of modality expressed by the apodosis gives rise to their potential for use in communication. The motivation for the development of a corpus-based classification of if-conditionals was the realisation that existing classifications have not been tested on representative samples of actual use, and, as a result, exhibit particular limitations (Gabrielatos 2010: 152-188). These limitations can be better understood when we consider the distinction between introspectioninformed, data-informed, and corpus-based classifications (adapted from Gabrielatos 2010: 10-13). Introspection-informed classifications, and the examples used to support them, are derived merely from the analyst’s introspections and informal observations. Data-informed classifications are supported by attested examples of use (e.g. taken from newspapers, novels, television, internet, overheard conversations, or corpora). However, these examples are selected ad hoc (even when the source is a corpus) to exemplify types that have been formulated on the basis of introspection or informal (i.e. unsystematic) observations, and can have no claim to being representative. Corpus-based classifications are based on an appropriate representative corpus, and adhere to the “principle of total accountability” to the data (Leech 1992: 112). That is, the analysis and resulting theoretical interpretations have to account for all relevant items in the corpus sample (in our case, if-conditionals) – no items are ignored or discounted, however inconvenient they may be for the proposed classification. In addition, corpus-based classifications can provide information on the frequency and distribution of particular types. Classifications that are not informed by the examination of representative samples of natural occurring language can be expected to reflect the analyst’s introspections rather than actual language use; that is, even if they use attested examples, they leave open the possibility that types of if-conditionals may have been left out, because they are not accessible via the analyst’s introspection, or have escaped the analyst’s attention, or, worse still, because they are incompatible with the pro
{"title":"If-conditionals: Corpus-based classification and frequency distribution","authors":"Costas Gabrielatos","doi":"10.2478/icame-2021-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0003","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the frequency distribution of the types of if-conditionals recognised in the corpus-based classification developed in Gabrielatos (2010: 230-265). It is pertinent to mention at the outset that if-conditionals have been estimated to account for about 80 per cent of all conditional constructions in written British English (Gabrielatos 2010: 49). The classification was partly adapted from Quirk et al. (1985: 1072-1097), and was based on two interrelated criteria: a) the nature of the link between the two parts of a conditional, (henceforth, protasis and apodosis) and b) the modal nature of the apodosis. The quantitative analysis discussed here provides insights into the nature of each type, and the ways that the interaction of the type of link between protasis and apodosis, and the type of modality expressed by the apodosis gives rise to their potential for use in communication. The motivation for the development of a corpus-based classification of if-conditionals was the realisation that existing classifications have not been tested on representative samples of actual use, and, as a result, exhibit particular limitations (Gabrielatos 2010: 152-188). These limitations can be better understood when we consider the distinction between introspectioninformed, data-informed, and corpus-based classifications (adapted from Gabrielatos 2010: 10-13). Introspection-informed classifications, and the examples used to support them, are derived merely from the analyst’s introspections and informal observations. Data-informed classifications are supported by attested examples of use (e.g. taken from newspapers, novels, television, internet, overheard conversations, or corpora). However, these examples are selected ad hoc (even when the source is a corpus) to exemplify types that have been formulated on the basis of introspection or informal (i.e. unsystematic) observations, and can have no claim to being representative. Corpus-based classifications are based on an appropriate representative corpus, and adhere to the “principle of total accountability” to the data (Leech 1992: 112). That is, the analysis and resulting theoretical interpretations have to account for all relevant items in the corpus sample (in our case, if-conditionals) – no items are ignored or discounted, however inconvenient they may be for the proposed classification. In addition, corpus-based classifications can provide information on the frequency and distribution of particular types. Classifications that are not informed by the examination of representative samples of natural occurring language can be expected to reflect the analyst’s introspections rather than actual language use; that is, even if they use attested examples, they leave open the possibility that types of if-conditionals may have been left out, because they are not accessible via the analyst’s introspection, or have escaped the analyst’s attention, or, worse still, because they are incompatible with the pro","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"23 1","pages":"87 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81667811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös (eds.). Developments in English historical morpho-syntax (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 346). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Publishing Company, 2019. vi. 312 pp. ISBN: 9789027203236(HB).","authors":"J. Schlüter","doi":"10.2478/icame-2021-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":"207 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74690083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural keywords in World Englishes: A GloWbE-based study","authors":"P. Collins","doi":"10.2478/icame-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73271,"journal":{"name":"ICAME journal : computers in English linguistics","volume":"17 1","pages":"5 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87408787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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