This paper presents the results of a multidimensional analysis to investigate stylistic patterns and their communicative functions in language teaching research articles. The findings were that language teaching research articles contained six... stylistic patterns and communicative functions. Pattern I consisted of seven salient positive features (i.e. Present Perfect Aspects, Split Auxiliaries, Type Token Ratio, Possibility Modals, Total Adverbs, Infinitives, and That Relative Clauses on Subject

of corpus linguistics for present linguistic studies is that it helps reveal lexico-grammatical patterns (or grammatical collocations) naturally used in the language together with their underlying communicative functions. Biber is said to be a pioneerin... lexico-grammatical patterns and their communicative functions and can further be applied for other studies particularly in the corpus linguistics field.

specific, and a skill not naturally acquired. It needs to be learned and practiced. Necessitating empirical evidences in the book helps shed light on lexical, grammatical, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic conventions and their communicative functions