Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing

This chapter discusses the identification of the major sets of interrelated collocations in academic writing across different disciplines, or dimensions of collocation. A corpus of textbooks and research articles from Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, containing 10.6 million words across 230 texts was analyzed using a collocational multi-dimensional analysis framework (Berber Sardinha 2017). Results show four dimensions of collocation for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, namely: