A phraseological exploration of recent mathematics research articles through key phrase frames

Cunningham, Kelly J.

doi:10.1016/j.jeap.2016.11.005

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“…Consulting previous research on the actual cut-off frequency to identify move-markers found that the value for identifying word sequences is somewhat arbitrary but ranges between 10 and 40 instances per million words (Cortes, 2013; Cunningham, 2017). However, the key issue for identifying move-markers is the ‘frequency vs variation’ paradox.…”

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“…Additionally, to ensure that word sequences were widely distributed in the corpus, ngrams which were found in at least 75% (19 out of 25) of the journals were selected. The same cut-off point for distributional range has been adopted by previous studies in this area (Cunningham, 2017; Simpson-Vlach and Ellis, 2010).…”

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“…The need for the identification and instruction of the linguistic realizations of rhetorical structures in RAs is well-acknowledged in the literature on English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) (Cortes, 2013; Cunningham, 2017; Omidian et al, 2018). These publications argue that most of the literature in this area has focussed on the rhetorical moves of different parts of the RA, and less attention has been paid to the linguistic features commonly associated with these moves.…”

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A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

Khany

Malmir

2019

RELC Journal

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While a wealth of research is available on the frequent multi-word units in academic genres, studies that exclusively link lexical sequences to the rhetorical moves in research articles (RAs) are fairly limited. This study involved compiling a corpus of 8,500 RA abstracts sampled from five disciplines of economics, law, political sciences, psychology, and sociology in social and behavioural sciences. Three to nine-word ngrams were generated using AntConc 3.4.4, which is a freeware corpus analysis toolkit. All the ngrams were studied in their contexts through concordance analysis and classified based on the rhetorical moves in which they occurred using the move structure taxonomy suggested by Hatzitheodorou (2014). Eventually, ngrams were processed at multiple levels and synthesized into 84 move-marker structures. This study offers insights into the linguistic realizations of moves in RA abstracts and introduces the concept of move-marker structures. In so doing, the potentials of positionally variable move-marker structures in improving English for Academic Purposes (EAP)/English for Specific Purposes (ESP) learners’ phraseological competence are suggested.

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A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

Khany

Malmir

2019

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“…The list included n-grams of size four and five, and following the previous research (Grabowski, 2015;Fuster-Markuez & Pennock-Speck, 2015;Römer, 2010), we initially extracted n-grams of size four. Additionally, n-grams of size five were included for two reasons: first, longer n-grams make it possible to extract more semantically complete PFs (Lu et al, 2018); second, n-grams of size five allow us to identify those PFs concerning discipline, genre, and register-specific (Cunningham, 2017;Römer, 2009). With the size of n-grams decided, all the variants of each p-frame were obtained through the software.…”

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A phraseological examination of research articles in the field of environment using key phrase frame

Barabadi¹,

Robatjazi²,

Bayat³

2020

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics

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Given that formulaic sequences play an important role in enhancing L2 learners' academic writing skills and that phraseological sequences constitute a large proportion of written discourse, the current study was an attempt to draw up a list of key phrase frames-phraseological sequences with a variable slot-in a corpus of research articles (RAs) in the field of environment. A complete list of such frames, extracted by kfNgram software, was subjected to a series of corpus statistics such as frequency, range, and keyness, as well as manual filtering. This resulted in the generation of 65 four-word and 20 five-word key phrase frames specific to the field of environment. Structural analysis revealed that the vast majority of these key phrase frames were content word sequences, while functionally most of them belonged to referential expressions. Pedagogically speaking, L2 learners are recommended to develop a rich repertoire of formulaic sequences such as key phrase frames which are considered the cornerstone of academic discourse.

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“…Discipline-specific lists of words and lexical bundles have been identified for mathematics (Cunningham, 2017), engineering (Hsu, 2014), chemistry (Valipouri & Nassaji, 2013), environmental science (Liu & Han, 2015), pharmacy (Grabowski, 2015), nursing (Yang, 2015), medicine (Wang, Liang, & Ge, 2008), agriculture (Martínez, Beck, & Panza, 2009), and macro groupings of academic subjects along a hard/soft discipline continuum (Durrant, 2017). These and other studies are questioning a general or "one-size-fits-all" approach to teaching academic English.…”

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2018

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A phraseological exploration of recent mathematics research articles through key phrase frames

Cited by 61 publications

References 26 publications

A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

A Move-marker List: A Study of Rhetorical Move-lexis Linguistic Realizations of Research Article Abstracts in Social and Behavioural Sciences

A phraseological examination of research articles in the field of environment using key phrase frame

Editor’s Note: On the Expanding Relevance of the Applied English Center

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