Lexical bundles in maritime texts

Abstract Lexical bundles are recurring frequent word combinations. Research has shown that lexical vary in genre and register (Biber 2006; Biber, Conrad Cortes 2004; Hyland 2008a, 2008b; Scott Tribble 2006). However, the degree to which they by discipline remains inconclusive. The main aim of this paper is establish whether specific, i.e., each draws on a specialized repertoire or there core vocabulary shared across various disciplines. For purpose, maritime texts covering subdomains marine engineering, navigation, law shipping have been collected so as investigate structure function find out how shape meaning discourse. purposes study, 7.4 M corpus consisting two monolingual subcorpora one bilingual subcorpus was compiled. This can be used basis for further studies field. Furthermore, discusses problems encountered while extracting N-grams from corpus, well classification criteria identification bundles. results show identified phrasal rather than clausal. also indicate specific. Teaching these features discourse improve students’ language production should thus focus instruction ESP.