Lexical Bundles in Discourse Structure: A Corpus-Based Study of Classroom Discourse.

Autor/in	Csomay, Eniko
Titel	Lexical Bundles in Discourse Structure: A Corpus-Based Study of Classroom Discourse.
Quelle	In: Applied linguistics, 34 (2013) 3, S. 369-388Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen 10; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 1
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-450X
DOI	10.1093/applin/ams045
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Grammatik; Korpusanalyse; Wortschatz; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Diskurs
Abstract	The present study applies corpus-based methods to document the distributional patterns of previously reported lexical bundle functions as they relate to discourse structure. Specifically, 84 lexical bundles and their discourse functions were tracked in 1,176 discourse units extracted from the initial phases of 196 university class sessions. The findings show that in the opening phase of class sessions bundles conveying stance are most frequent while bundles articulating reference are least in number. With the start of the instructional phase, however, stance bundles sharply drop and referential bundles start rising. Discourse organizing bundles are least prominent overall, although with some rise at the very beginning of the instructional phase. These findings indicate that lexical bundle functions correspond well to the communicative functions in discourse structure found through linguistic variation and suggest that there is a strong relationship between grammar and lexis on the discourse level. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2