This study explores the similarities and differences between English Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand…etc., another specialized numerical prefixes (mono-, bi-, milli-, kilo-, mega-) were collected, analyzed compared. It was found fall into 4 cate...

The paper discusses the differences between intracultural communication and intercultural communication froma socio-cognitive perspective that treats this relationship as a continuum rather than a dichotomy.Movement on the continuum, anddifferences between the two phenomena are affected by different factors that will be discussed in the paper. The hypothetical left end of the continuum is intra...

This paper investigates a special type of recurrent expressions, lexical bundles, defined as a sequence of three or more words that co-occur frequently in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). Considering the importance of this group of multi-word sequences in academic prose, this study explores the forms and syntactic structures of three- and four-word bundles in English abstracts writte...