چکیده:
This paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications. For this purpose, the frequency of occurrence and distribution of different functional taxonomies of lexical bundles across the subject matter were investigated. More than 2.5 million words of different English and Persian-produced online newspapers were collected and they were identified by the help of two computer programs, then their functionswere analyzed. Consistent with similar research on lexical bundles, the analysis indicates that most bundles perform a referential function in journalistic register. These findings may be particularly useful to translators and also EFL practitioners, as they seem to give new insights into the development of learner language.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Journalistic Writing in English and Persian: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective Marzieh Rafiee, Ph. D Student, Department of English, Isfahan University, Isfahan rafieemarzieh@gmail.
The aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in English and published in England and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in Persian from Iranian publications.
Keywords: ESP; lexical bundles; journalistic writing; newspaper register During the last century, the study of word combinations has attracted many linguists and researchers.
The example studies are the ones conducted by Biber and Conrad (1999) who analyzed the use of lexical bundles in academic writing and conversation, Hewings&Hewings (2002), who compared the use of lexical bundles in the written production of published authors and university students, Cortes (2002a, 2004), who identified four-word lexical bundles (called target bundles) used by published authors in history and biology and by students at three different levels in those disciplines, Biber, Conrad & Cortes (2004), who described the use of lexical bundles in two university instructional registers: classroom teaching and textbooks, Biber&Barbieri (2007), who investigated the use of lexical bundles in a wide range of spoken and written university registers, including both instructional registers and students advising/management registers (e.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the frequency and distribution of different functional taxonomies of lexical bundles across English and Persian-produced online newspapers to find some similarities between these two corpora.