FREQUENCY AND STRUCTURAL PATTERNS OF LEXICAL BUNDLES IN BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED IN Q1 INDEXED JOURNALS: A CORPUS STUDY

Abstract

Considering the problem regarding demands to publish the researchers’ works in reputable journals, the texts published in reputable journals need to be analysed. This study investigated the frequency and the structural patterns of lexical bundles in book reviews to explain how these structural patterns of lexical bundles are frequently used by the authors in writing book reviews published in Q1 indexed journals. Therefore, it has two research questions which are: (1) how is the frequency of lexical bundles in book reviews published in Q1 indexed journals? (2) how are the structural patterns of lexical bundles in book reviews published in Q1 indexed journals? A corpus-based study was used to explain the process of observing the data. The corpus consists of twenty book reviews that were published in ten Q1 indexed journals. The frequency and the structural patterns of lexical bundles in book reviews published in Q1 indexed journals will be analysed by using AncConc v 4.2.2 software and manual procedures. Additionally, the instrument proposed by Biber et al. (2021) combined with Salazar (2011) will be used to analyse the data. Finally, the results of this study revealed that the frequency of occurrences of lexical bundles used in this corpus is 163 times in 33.579 tokens. There are 37 variations of lexical bundles found in this corpus. Subsequently, the structural patterns of lexical bundles which dominate variants of four-word lexical bundles are prepositional-phrase fragments and noun phrases. Therefore, it can be stated that these findings support the relevant previous studies.