Words, as we know, cannot be torn apart either from the concepts they express or from the functions they perform in each communicative context. In this regard, the unity of words and concepts is considered an indispen...Words, as we know, cannot be torn apart either from the concepts they express or from the functions they perform in each communicative context. In this regard, the unity of words and concepts is considered an indispensible part of all communication. Being a great hindrance on the way to efficient scientific communication, competence in general academic vocabulary seems to be of paramount importance. The reflection of the process of scientific work can be found in the general scientific vocabulary in order to establish a convenient, rational and simple system in this register. The present work focused on the lexical dimensions of scientific discourse in the hope to illuminate the path to bring about a better understanding of one of the crucial aspects of this register which seems to be overlooked while teaching EAP to non-native learners, a pragmatically oriented system which might provide a scientifically controlled ＂tool＂, to non-native learners.展开更多
This paper reports a study into the use of lexical items in economics journal papers. The corpus in this study （EC） consisted of 907,380 running words from 120 journal papers randomly selected from economics journal...This paper reports a study into the use of lexical items in economics journal papers. The corpus in this study （EC） consisted of 907,380 running words from 120 journal papers randomly selected from economics journals which were written by native English speakers. The results showed that the Academic Word List （AWL） accounted for 12.74% of the tokens in EC and the distribution of AWL in EC was uneven. In the case study of the key words, only four out of nine key words ranked by keyness were AWL words, while the other five were from the General Service List （GSL）. Moreover, those nine key words together with other three key functional expressions were employed to fulfill discourse and rhetorical functions in academic writings. Pedagogical implications are also discussed within this paper.展开更多
文摘Words, as we know, cannot be torn apart either from the concepts they express or from the functions they perform in each communicative context. In this regard, the unity of words and concepts is considered an indispensible part of all communication. Being a great hindrance on the way to efficient scientific communication, competence in general academic vocabulary seems to be of paramount importance. The reflection of the process of scientific work can be found in the general scientific vocabulary in order to establish a convenient, rational and simple system in this register. The present work focused on the lexical dimensions of scientific discourse in the hope to illuminate the path to bring about a better understanding of one of the crucial aspects of this register which seems to be overlooked while teaching EAP to non-native learners, a pragmatically oriented system which might provide a scientifically controlled ＂tool＂, to non-native learners.
文摘This paper reports a study into the use of lexical items in economics journal papers. The corpus in this study （EC） consisted of 907,380 running words from 120 journal papers randomly selected from economics journals which were written by native English speakers. The results showed that the Academic Word List （AWL） accounted for 12.74% of the tokens in EC and the distribution of AWL in EC was uneven. In the case study of the key words, only four out of nine key words ranked by keyness were AWL words, while the other five were from the General Service List （GSL）. Moreover, those nine key words together with other three key functional expressions were employed to fulfill discourse and rhetorical functions in academic writings. Pedagogical implications are also discussed within this paper.
