Lexical Bundles in Economic Research Articles by Native and Non-native Speakers of English

Abstract

This paper examines the use of lexical bundles in economic research articles of native and non-native speakers of English. Similar and different structural features are compared between the articles of American and Korean authors, from the Brookings Institution and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), which amount to 262,653 words. KfNgram (Fletcher, 2010) was used to retrieve corpus query of four-word lexical bundles. Structural analysis was conducted following the method by Biber et al. (1999). Suggestions for future research and improvements are provided.