چکیده:
In any discourse domain, certain chunks are particularly frequent and deserve attention by the novice to be initiated and by the expert to maintain a sense of community. To make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals. The abstracts from all the issues of 30 applied linguistics journals which were published before August 1, 2013 were collected. These abstracts which generated a corpus of 2,750,000 words were submitted to the program AntConc for chunk extraction. The long list of chunks in the output was shortlisted based on frequency and inclusiveness of shorter chunks. These were classified into textual and content n-grams. The article also presents the frequent chunks which serve as starting points in bringing up different aspects of research reports. The practical value of the results is briefly discussed at the end of the article.
خلاصه ماشینی:
To make a relevant contribution to the awareness about applied linguistics texts and discourse, this study attempted to develop lists of lexical chunks frequently used in the abstracts of applied linguistics journals.
The concern of this study is to add to the emerging body of facts and information about lexical chunks and collocative items which frequently recur in the abstracts of applied linguistics research articles.
Finally, Farjami (2013) developed a corpus-based profile of the lexical make-up of applied linguistics research article abstracts and compared several categories of the most frequent applied linguistics words with those in two established wordlists, the Academic Word List and the General Service List, identifying the shared and unique items.
2. 2 Chunks and collocations Research in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics suggests that the basic units of language are constructions—pieces of language which are conventionalized in the community and represented in the minds of speakers and learners as language knowledge (Croft & Cruise, 2004; Goldberg, 2006).
3. The Study The aim of this research was to explore and list the highest-frequency lexical chunks in applied linguistics article abstracts (ALAAs), the decision about the number of the frequent chunks to display in the report being made based on article space constraints and other practical limitations.
What are the most frequent content chunks in the abstracts of applied linguistics research journal articles?
6. Results and Discussion The goal of this study was to provide a profile of the common chunks and expressions found in a fairly comprehensive corpus of the abstracts of applied linguistics research articles.