| Title: |
'Dead at the Scene' and More: Lexical Bundles in Accident News |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Mathurin Leelasetakul |
| Source: |
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network. 2025 18(2):78-107. |
| Availability: |
Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
30 |
| Publication Date: |
2025 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: |
Phrase Structure; Motor Vehicles; Accidents; Word Lists; English (Second Language); Word Frequency; Second Language Learning; News Reporting; Discourse Analysis; Second Language Instruction |
| ISSN: |
2630-0672; 2672-9431 |
| Abstract: |
This study explores lexical bundles in vehicular accident news with the goal to provide a lexical bundle list for students learning to write this genre of news in English. A corpus of accident news is constructed from vehicular news articles from four English news sources over a period of one year. The lexical bundles are extracted from using the frequency-based approach in which the frequency cut-off point for this study is at 60 per million words, and they must also appear at least in three different texts and in two subcorpora. In total, there are 79 lexical bundles identified for vehicular accident news and they are further categorized based on their functions as stance expressions, discourse organizers, referential expressions, and news-specific functions. The patterns and contexts of usage for each lexical bundles are discussed in detail so that they can be of use for teachers and students. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2025 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1479899 |
| Database: |
ERIC |