LEXICAL BUNDLES IN MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES: COVID-19 ARTICLEJORUNALS

Abstract

Lexical bundle usually appears in any text. It is always used with the same form and same structure in a text to explain or to express something. This form of constructing the words is totally come from the author or writer based on his or her vocabulary knowledge and grammatical knowledge. This research aims to find out the lexical bundles in medical journal article, and this research also aims to analyze the structure of lexical bundles found in the medical journal articles. This is a corpus database research. The data derived from 10 medical journals which focused on covid-19 issue and those journals consist of 204 articles. The data was analyzed by using software AntConc 3.5.8. The result of the research showed there 953,290 tokens in whole articles, then there are 6 lexical bundles found which divided into 4 lexical bundles with 4 words and 2 lexical bundles with 3 words. Based on the analyses of data indicated that the lexical bundles found were formed by using preposition and then combined with the noun phrase.