A Comparative Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Journalistic Writing in English and Persian: A Contrastive Linguistic Perspective

International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Research

مقاله 4، دوره 1، شماره 2، شهریور 2013، صفحه 49-55   

نوع مقاله: Research Papers

نویسندگان

Marzieh Rafiee¹؛ Mahbube Keihaniyan²

¹Ph.D Student, Department of English, Isfahan University, Isfahan

²MA Student, Young Researchers and Elite Club, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan

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.
 

کلیدواژه‌ها

: ESP؛ Lexical Bundles؛ journalistic writing؛ newspaper register

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