Comparative Analysis Of Lexical Bundles In Chinese And Foreign Applied Linguistics Journal Abstracts

In recent years,publishing papers in international journals is one of an important condition for conducting academic research and increasing publicity.Lexical bundle is the basic unit of discourse cohesion and plays an important role in discourse output.In this paper,the researcher built corpora of journal abstracts in the field of applied linguistics.This article attempts to compare the use of lexical bundles in the abstracts of Chinese and Western scholarly journal abstracts from the structure,function and move aspects.The results show that:(1)the journal abstracts of native speakers consist of phrase-based bundles,and the Chinese scholars’ journal abstracts have higher frequency of verb-phrased lexical bundles.(2)In terms of function,Chinese and Western scholars’journal abstracts employ plenty of research-orientated and text-orientated lexical bundles,and insufficient participated-orientated lexical bundles.(3)In the background move,both native speakers and Chinese authors use a large number of prepositional lexical bundles.In the purpose move,the native speakers use huge amounts of prepositional lexical bundles,which containing the first person pronoun.Whereas.Chinese authors mainly use verbs,and most of them use non-personal pronouns as subjects.Compared with native speakers,Chinese authors have a certain lack in the method move,besides the number of lexical bundles used is small.In the result move,the native authors often use prepositional lexical bundles.However,native authors often use verb-like bundles.In terms of conclusions,native speakers are more inclined to express directly.Chinese authors often use the "predictive + verb or adjective fragment"paradigm.In the discourse function of each move,native speakers use more research-oriented lexical bundles.Chinese author uses more text-oriented lexical bundles in the background move,the target move and the result move.Both native speakers and Chinese authors lack the use of participation-oriented lexical bundles.This study helps Chinese authors to discover the characteristics of the lexical bundles and write an English abstract that conforms to academic norms.