A multi-dimensional view of collocations in academic
writing
This chapter discusses the identification of the
major sets of interrelated collocations in academic writing across
different disciplines, or dimensions of collocation. A corpus of
textbooks and research articles from Social, Behavioral and Economic
Sciences, containing 10.6 million words across 230 texts was
analyzed using a collocational multi-dimensional analysis framework
(Berber Sardinha
2017). Results show four dimensions of collocation for
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, namely: (1) Human Nature,
Culture and Research Methods vs. Economics; (2) Human Evolution and
Society; (3) Business and Finance; and (4) Statistics. The chapter
highlights a methodology for identifying collocational patterns
through multi-dimensional analysis, and contributes to a better
understanding of academic writing in Social, Behavioral and Economic
Sciences.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Collocational multi-dimensional analysis
- 3.Collocational multi-dimensional analysis of academic
writing
- 4.Dimensions of collocation in academic writing
- 5.Conclusion
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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