It can be said (that): Lexical Bundles in English Extended Abstracts of Locally Published Turkish Research Articles

Building on existing literature on phraseology, this study explores how Turkish scholars employ lexical bundles in their extended abstracts. To this end, a corpus of the extended abstracts from five disciplines was collected. The structures and functions of the four-word lexical bundles identified in the extended abstracts were analyzed based on the previously structured two taxonomies (Biber et al., 1999; Hyland, 2008a). The analysis revealed 116 four-word lexical bundles. The findings indicate that, in contrast to previous studies using the same taxonomies, most of the identified lexical bundles in this study are structurally categorized as verb-constructed and functionally classified as text-oriented. We conclude with the potential benefits of this parallel lingual environment created by extended abstracts, which may act as a catalyst to overcome the possible linguistic challenges faced by English as an Additional Language scholars.