ANALIZING FREQUENCY, STRUCTURE, AND FUNCTION OF LEXICAL BUNDLES IN COVID-19 ARTICLES BY USING ANT CONC APPLICATION

Abstract

It is crucial to recognize that extended fixed collocations are a significant part of fluent discourse production and comprehension and are a crucial part of the shared knowledge of a professional discourse community when approaching the study of extended fixed collocations in academic discourse from a pedagogical perspective. The purpose of this study is to understand the phenomena of lexical bundles, that can be found in a variety of discourses or particular articles. Using the Windows Ant Conc 3.5.8 tool, this journal examines 204 texts relative to Covid-19 that total 935290 words and 26232 different word categories. Lexical bundles are examined in terms of their frequency, composition, and purpose. The study found that lexical bundles in articles have different qualities. They consist of discourse function, frequency, and structure. Apart from verb phrase components or noun phrase parts, other expression bundles and prepositional bundles are used most often in the article.