Corpus evidence for a discipline-specific phraseological approach to academic vocabulary

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• dc.contributor.author Rees, Geraint Paul
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-14T07:55:40Z
• dc.date.available 2025-05-14T07:55:40Z
• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract This study examines the validity of the rationale underlying recent trends towards discipline-specific and phraseological approaches to vocabulary selection for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. It examines the behaviour of Coxhead’s (2000) New Academic Wordlist (AWL) using a 2,795,031 word corpus compiled from journal articles taken from the disciplines of History, Microbiology, and Management Studies. A two-stage method of analysis is employed. Firstly, coverage statistics for all AWL word families and their members are compared across the History, Microbiology, and Management Studies sub-corpora. This suggests difference in language use across disciplines. This difference is investigated further in a second stage of analysis which employs the Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004) Word Sketch Difference tool and Corpus Pattern Analysis (Hanks 2004) techniques to examine the collocational behaviour of a sample of 57 AWL headwords across the three sub-corpora. The results demonstrate that a large number of the AWL words have discipline- specific meanings, and that these meanings are conditioned by the syntagmatic context of the AWL item.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by an IULA-UPF doctoral research grant from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, within the project ‘Significado léxico dependiente del contexto y polisemia, y las implicaciones para la representación lexicográfica’ (FFI2015-70375- P, MINECO/FEDER).
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• dc.identifier.citation Rees GP. Corpus evidence for a discipline-specific phraseological approach to academic vocabulary. RiCL. 2016;4:61-74. DOI: 10.32714/ricl.04.07
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.32714/ricl.04.07
• dc.identifier.issn 2243-4712
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70391
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus (AELINCO)
• dc.relation.ispartof Research in Corpus Linguistics. 2016;4:61-74
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2015-70375- P
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• dc.subject.keyword Corpus pattern analysis
• dc.subject.keyword English for academic purposes
• dc.subject.keyword Wordlist
• dc.subject.keyword Specialist lexicography
• dc.subject.keyword Sketch engine
• dc.subject.keyword Language analysis
• dc.title Corpus evidence for a discipline-specific phraseological approach to academic vocabulary
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