STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL TAXONOMIES OF LEXICAL BUNDLES: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

The current research work is a descriptive study whichfocuses on reviewing different taxonomies which have been used to analyse discourse functions and structural patterns of lexical bundles extracted from different corpora.Structural taxonomies proposed by Biber et al. (1999) and Salazar (2014)and functional taxonomies put forward by  Biber et al. (2004), Hyland (2008a) and Salazar (2014) have been discussed in detail by the researchers. The current research also makes the abovementioned taxonomies more understandable and applicable especially for studying the structural patterns and functions of lexical bundles.