Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study

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Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: De Camargo, Diva Cardoso [UNESP], Serpa, Talita [UNESP], Da Silva, Luciano Franco [UNESP]
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.29.2.1229-1252
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/206108
Resumo: Authors from different countries have published their papers in English, aiming to promote their research results widely and to become internationally known by their peers. It is also true that, although they are aware of the English terminology used in their respective field, some authors still struggle with some features of academic writing such as collocations. Thus, this paper presents a discussion on the underuse and overuse traces of academic collocations by Brazilian authors who had their articles published in English on an open electronic library of scientific journals. In order to analyse the collocations used by these researchers, we compiled a 906,035- word corpus from eight different academic areas. The collocations observed were statistically compared to those from an academic corpus of English writings which contains texts produced by English-speaking authors. Results showed that there are more collocations underused than overused by the authors. The analysis proved that the collocation repertoire of researchers could be broadened by being pointed out during academic writing workshops.
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spelling Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven studyAnalisando o comportamento de colocações acadêmicas em um corpus de artigos científicos: Um estudo dirigido por dadosAcademic collocationsCorpus linguisticsResearch paper writingAuthors from different countries have published their papers in English, aiming to promote their research results widely and to become internationally known by their peers. It is also true that, although they are aware of the English terminology used in their respective field, some authors still struggle with some features of academic writing such as collocations. Thus, this paper presents a discussion on the underuse and overuse traces of academic collocations by Brazilian authors who had their articles published in English on an open electronic library of scientific journals. In order to analyse the collocations used by these researchers, we compiled a 906,035- word corpus from eight different academic areas. The collocations observed were statistically compared to those from an academic corpus of English writings which contains texts produced by English-speaking authors. Results showed that there are more collocations underused than overused by the authors. The analysis proved that the collocation repertoire of researchers could be broadened by being pointed out during academic writing workshops.Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP)Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP)Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]De Camargo, Diva Cardoso [UNESP]Serpa, Talita [UNESP]Da Silva, Luciano Franco [UNESP]2021-06-25T10:26:43Z2021-06-25T10:26:43Z2021-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1229-1252http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2237-2083.29.2.1229-1252Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, v. 29, n. 2, p. 1229-1252, 2021.2237-20830104-0588http://hdl.handle.net/11449/20610810.17851/2237-2083.29.2.1229-12522-s2.0-85103207591Scopusreponame:Repositório Institucional da UNESPinstname:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)instacron:UNESPengRevista de Estudos da Linguageminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2021-10-22T21:02:55Zoai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/206108Repositório InstitucionalPUBhttp://repositorio.unesp.br/oai/requestopendoar:29462024-08-05T20:50:57.868223Repositório Institucional da UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
Analisando o comportamento de colocações acadêmicas em um corpus de artigos científicos: Um estudo dirigido por dados
title Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
spellingShingle Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]
Academic collocations
Corpus linguistics
Research paper writing
title_short Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
title_full Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
title_fullStr Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
title_full_unstemmed Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
title_sort Analysing the behaviour of academic collocations in a corpus of research-papers: A data-driven study
author Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]
author_facet Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]
De Camargo, Diva Cardoso [UNESP]
Serpa, Talita [UNESP]
Da Silva, Luciano Franco [UNESP]
author_role author
author2 De Camargo, Diva Cardoso [UNESP]
Serpa, Talita [UNESP]
Da Silva, Luciano Franco [UNESP]
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pinto, Paula Tavares [UNESP]
De Camargo, Diva Cardoso [UNESP]
Serpa, Talita [UNESP]
Da Silva, Luciano Franco [UNESP]
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Academic collocations
Corpus linguistics
Research paper writing
topic Academic collocations
Corpus linguistics
Research paper writing
description Authors from different countries have published their papers in English, aiming to promote their research results widely and to become internationally known by their peers. It is also true that, although they are aware of the English terminology used in their respective field, some authors still struggle with some features of academic writing such as collocations. Thus, this paper presents a discussion on the underuse and overuse traces of academic collocations by Brazilian authors who had their articles published in English on an open electronic library of scientific journals. In order to analyse the collocations used by these researchers, we compiled a 906,035- word corpus from eight different academic areas. The collocations observed were statistically compared to those from an academic corpus of English writings which contains texts produced by English-speaking authors. Results showed that there are more collocations underused than overused by the authors. The analysis proved that the collocation repertoire of researchers could be broadened by being pointed out during academic writing workshops.
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