This study examined lexical bundles (LBs) used differently by Chinese and American PhD
students of linguistics in their dissertation abstracts. Two corpora were built, with each …

The present study aims to examine how significant the use of lexical bundles prevalent in
the field of applied linguistics can be in students' writing materials. Forty lexical bundles …

The study of linguistic devices serving as stance expressions is one of the best means by
which the relationship between the writer, the reader and the propositional meaning could …

Connor et al.(2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres”(p. 12) as one of the
reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each …

Teaching academic writing is a big challenge for teachers and ESL learners, more
particularly in non-native countries. Lexical bundle'is relatively a new term in the field of …

As building blocks of coherent discourse, lexical bundles, frequent word combinations that
commonly occur in different registers, have attracted the attention of researchers in corpus …

The present study aimed at investigating the similarities and differences of interactional
metadiscourse markers and 3-word and 4-word participant-oriented bundles used in English …

Lexical bundles have been spotlighted by the researchers in the last two decades. The aim
of this study was to examine the use of lexical bundles in physics research articles in terms …

Lexical bundles, as fixed-form recurrent word combinations of multiple words, constitute a
significant portion of academic writing and play a pivotal role in producing fluent texts. Extant …

The impetus for performing this study came from Thornbury's (2005) approach to teaching
speaking in which he claimed that awareness-raising techniques and appropriation …