Title A contrastive analysis of research papers and media articles on astrophysics in english: the lexical bundles approach /
Translation of Title Gretinamasis astrofizikos mokslinių ir publicistinių straipsnių anglų kalba tyrimas taikant leksinių samplaikų metodą.
Authors Pudžiuvelytė, Gerda
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Keywords [eng] Academic register, lexical bundle, media register, register, register analysis, akademinis registras, leksinė samplaika, žiniasklaidos registras, registras, registro analizė
Abstract [eng] The study analyses the complexity of linguistic expression of academic and media articles on astrophysics. The main objectives of this research were to identify and examine register differences in terms of the structural and functional features. In accordance with the objectives of the study, two corpora of academic and media articles on astrophysics were compiled. The study was carried out based on the frequency-driven approach and the lexical bundles approach (Biber et al. 2004) with which the recurrent four-word sequences were determined and analysed. The results of the study reveal that the media and academic registers have more differences than similarities both structurally and functionally. The structural variation between the registers in general shows the tendency that: the lexical bundles that incorporate noun phrase and prepositional phrase fragments are more frequent in the media register; the lexical bundles that incorporate verb phrase fragments are as twice more occurrent in the academic register; and, the lexical bundles that incorporate dependent clause fragments are slightly more prominent in the academic register. Regarding the functional variation between the registers, it was identified that the media register contains more referential lexical bundles; whereas, in the academic register stance and discourse organising lexical bundles were approximately two and four times more frequently occurring respectively. Moreover, it was found one predominantly exclusive structure for each analysed register. In academic register it was 1st person + that-clause structure and in the media register - noun phrase + at-phrase structure.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Master thesis
Language English
Publication date 2023