Lexical bundles in psychology lectures and textbooks: a contrastive corpus-based study with implications for academic writing.

ABSTRACT: Research on lexical bundles (LBs) has explored various academic domains; however, the field of psychology has received comparatively less attention. This study aims to address this gap by contrastively investigating the use of LBs in two sub-corpora: videotaped lectures and textbook chapters. Four-word bundles that meet a predetermined set of selection criteria are elicited and subsequently analyzed both structurally and functionally. The results indicate significant variation in the number of bundle types and tokens between the two registers, with the spoken register exhibiting a much broader variety of LBs than the written register. Structural analysis reveals that clausal constructions predominantly characterize LBs in the spoken psychology register, whereas phrasal patterns are more co

SUBMITTER: Alasmary A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034667 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature