Resumen de Lexical bundles and moves in research article abstracts of different disciplines

Purificación Sánchez Hernández

• Much has been published about abstracts as a written genre and less attention has been paid to lexical bundles and “moves” in the abstracts of different disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to select the most common lexical bundles of abstracts in four different fields of knowledge, analyse their structure and function and classify them according to the “moves” they perform. 210 abstracts of 4 different disciplines were collected and the lexical bundles extracted were analysed. The results reveal important differences associated to disciplinary variation in the types of bundles, their structure and function and in the structure of the moves. These finding suggest that disciplinary variation should be considered in academic writing courses.