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Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background Information
1.2 Significance of the Study
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 The Structure of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 The Lexical Approach
2.2 Formulaic Language
2.3 Lexical Bundles
2.4 Functional and Structural Classification of Lexical Bundles
2.5 Corpus-Based Studies
2.6 Summary
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 A Working definition of the lexical bundles
3.2 Research Questions
3.3 The Construction of Corpus
3.4 Instruments
3.4.1 AntConc
3.4.2 Easy PDF to Text Converter
3.5 Procedures
3.6 Summary
Chapter 4 Results,Analysis and Discussion
4.1 The Overall Distribution of the Lexical Bundles
4.1.1 The Overall Distribution of 3-word Lexical Bundles
4.1.2 The Overall Distribution of 4-word and 5-word Lexical Bundles
4.2 The Structural Taxonomy of the Lexical Bundles
4.2.1 Phrases with Embedded Of-phrase Fragment
4.2.2 To-clause Fragment
4.2.3 That-clause Fragment
4.2.4 Anticipatory It Pattern
4.3 The Case Study of Some Frequent Lexical Bundles
4.3.1 Lexical Bundles of“can”
4.3.2 Lexical Bundles of“should”
4.3.3 The Comparison of Lexical Bundles containing Be-verbs
4.4 The Functional Taxonomy of the Lexical Bundles
4.4.1 Stance Bundles
4.4.2 Discourse Organizers
4.4.3 Referential Expressions
4.5 Summary of Findings and Discussions
4.5.1 Overall Distribution of Lexical Bundles
4.5.2 Structural Analysis of Lexical Bundles
4.5.3 Case Studies
4.5.4 Functional Taxonomy of Lexical Bundles
Conclusion
References
Appendix A The 3-4 word Lexical Bundles in CRC and NRC
Appendix B 中文详细摘要
Acknowledgements
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