Sassari, Italia
Patterns of variability in lexical bundles are investigated in a corpus of US presidential addresses. The findings are then compared with those reported in the literature concerning other fields of discourse. The methodology adopted mirrors that of Biber’s (2009) study using two corpora: a 4.5-million-word corpus of American English conversation; and a 5.3-million-word corpus of academic prose. The results for the Presidential data display distinct distribution patterns of lexical bundle types when compared with those of the reference corpora. The functions of the most frequent examples of the most fixed pattern are also analysed, showing high proportions of slogans and multi-word collocations.
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