research paid attention to spoken discourse, particularly in doctors’ conversations (hereby referred to as “Doctor Talks”). This study aimed to investigate four-word lexical bundles in Doctor Talks and their operationalized functions. A Doctor Talk corpus... functions were analyzed, using Biber et al.’s (2004) functional taxonomy as a framework. The results reveal that 99 bundle types are present in the Doctor Talk corpus. Stance bundles are common in this spoken conversation corpus while lexical bundles

of Grice’s Cooperative Principle and maxims (1975), the purpose of this research was to examine the functions of maxim flouting done by the relevant parties while discussing their business transactions. The data came from email correspondence among

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.

purposes. This research study aimed to investigate lexical bundles used in medical research articles published in the highest rank and to analyze their structure and functions. A corpus of 346 medical research articles was collected from the highest ranked... medical journal published in Thailand. Thai Med corpus consists of 801,052 tokens. AntConc software program, N- Grams function, was used to identify four lexical bundles. An analysis of structures and functions of these lexical bundles was conducted, using

frequently used syntactic structures were identified, they were analysed further for classifications of sentence types and structures in order to gain insight into patterns of grammatical forms and functions. The findings showed that in terms of occurrences...). In addition, the most common form of sentence was declarative and its function was to make a statement. Other interesting findings such as linguistic playfulness and incongruence of forms and functions were also discussed in the study.

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

This research investigated the use of English spoken discourse markers by Thai EFL learners in English conversation compared to native English speakers from two perspectives: frequency and pragmatic function. A total of 60 learners were involved... markers – so, well, you know and I think. Moreover, Thai EFL learners we shown to use each spoken discourse marker differently in comparison to native English speakers. On the whole, interpersonal functions were less frequently a factor than textual

according to the non-impairment view of the Missing Surface Inflectional Hypothesis (MSIH), and against the impairment view of the Failed Functional Feature Hypothesis (FFFH). The participants were 58 intermediate and 45 advanced Thai undergraduates

77 business English textbooks and emails sourced from the Enron Corporation, representing authentic English business emails. The structural and functional categorizations of lexical bundles from Biber et al. (2004) and Biber (2006) were used... as frameworks for the analysis. Findings show that structural categories of lexical bundles in textbooks and those in authentic emails are generally similar while functional categories are noticeably different. Although there are more lexical bundle types