Phraseological Expressions: Gender-Based Corpus Analysis of EFL/ESL Academic Research Articles

Phraseological or multi-word-pattern corpus-driven analysis of language in use has offered significant insights recent years into how linguistic discourse can vary. This variation been researched across genres, registers, disciplines, and native non-native differences. However, very few studies have presented the gender-based academic research within EFL/ESL perspective. The current study explored lexical bundles practiced by male female researchers working context KSA. Corpora comprising almost 300,000 words including 68 articles, 36 32 were collected run through Lancsbox 6.0 software package. was based on frequency structural patterns selected data. For critical patterns, taxonomy framework Gezegin-Bal (2109) adapted from Biber et al. (1999) employed. As established findings study, prepositional noun phrases remained overwhelmingly more frequent common both corpora. There no differences found which reflects that similar expressions their English language.