Benefiting from a corpus based design, this paper attempts to compare acknowledgments across three academic disciplines written by Turkish and Iranian authors in terms of the formulaic language employed. Studies into the ...

with the results of their analyses. This study hopes to achieve a similar goal by analyzing research article abstracts in terms of the frequency and function of lexical bundles. A corpus of 200 research article abstracts by Iranian authors in the field of applied...

the analysis of research article introductions in terms of the frequency and function of their

lexical bundles. To this end, a corpus of 200 research article introductions by published

authors in the field of Applied Linguistics was compared...

and form of three main sections of the RA (i.e., Introduction, Method and Results) through examining the frequency, structure and function of lexical bundles found within each. By comparing the three sections, a better understanding of in-text linguistic...