Lexical bundles perform discourse functions and present differing levels of variability, with
some slots replaceable by optional words. Incorporating both function and formulaicity …

Acknowledging limitations and making recommendations for future research are often
presented in thesis handbooks and rubrics as obligatory moves that demonstrate an author's …

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students', practitioners' and
researchers' knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly …

Overlapping bundles, that is, shorter lexical bundles that are totally or partially embedded in
longer expressions, may prove problematic in the structural and functional classification of …

Multi-word expressions referred to as lexical bundles are the important 'discourse building
blocks' to construct and signal fluent writing, particularly in an attempt to produce high …

Research on lexical bundles has shed much light on disciplinary influences on the
employment of these multi-word expressions in academic discourse, particularly in research …

This study aimed to explore the use of bundles in the field of English education and to trace
their development between 2001 and 2020 by compiling two corpora of PhD dissertations …

Lexical bundles perform a wide range of functions, and present disciplinary variation in
written academic prose. However, little is known about the characteristics of lexical bundles …

Given the significance of lexical bundles as recurrent word combinations in academic
research writing, diachronic analyses of these linguistic expressions in writing research …

Previous studies have identified frequent lexical bundles associated with qualitative,
quantitative, and mixed methods research paradigms. These paradigmatic investigations of …