IDENTIFICATION OF THE MOST COMMON PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN ACADEMIC TEXTS: CONTRIBUTIONS COMING FROM CORPORA
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Academic-scientific phraseological units in the English language play a key role in the communication of/to experts, once they reproduce frequent and expected expressions in varied disciplines. This is paper aims at identifying and analyzing the 100 non-specialized academic-scientific phraseological units in the English language, present in eight major fields of knowledge. The theoretical background referred to Phraseology and Corpus Linguistics. Regarding methodology, an academic corpus was compiled with more than 120 million words. The most relevant units are ‘the case of’, ‘as a result of’ and ‘at the end of’. The list with the most functional phraseological units in the English language might provide a valuable pedagogical linguistic reference for the study of the academic genre.
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