Exploring Formulaic Clusters in L2 English Expert Writing: Academic ELF Discourse

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploring Formulaic Clusters in L2 English Expert Writing: Academic ELF Discourse
Original language description
Research into various aspects of formulaic language in academia has revealed that recurrent formulaic clusters (lexical bundles/sequences, multi-word combinations, chunks, prefabs) are genre-, discipline-, register-dependent and user-oriented. No scholarly attention has so far been paid to the use of formulaic clusters by L2-English experts in research papers that have not undergone professional language brokering services. The present study examines the forms, structures and functions of n-word clusters employed by L1 Czech experts submitting their texts for publication in English medium journals. The analysis shows that ELF texts reveal a tendency for phrasal constructions, and verbal and clausal constructions are much less employed. These are signals of L1 expert production, however, L2 experts use fewer stance-oriented clusters while research-oriented cluster dominate 3-word chunks and discourse-oriented clusters are typical of 4-word chunks. Potential approximation reveal very low frequency and the tendency is towards conventional ENL forms.
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
The Foundations and Versatility of English Language Teaching (ELT)
ISBN
978-1-5275-0631-2
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
15-32
Number of pages of the book
150
Publisher name
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
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