“Dead at the Scene” and More: Lexical Bundles in Accident News

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Published: Jul 30, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70730/EUQT4958
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corpus linguistics lexical bundles formulaic language

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Muthurin Leelasetakul
Department of English, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Abstract

This study explores lexical bundles in vehicular accident news with the goal to provide a lexical bundle list for students learning to write this genre of news in English. A corpus of accident news is constructed from vehicular news articles from four English news sources over a period of one year. The lexical bundles are extracted from using the frequency-based approach in which the frequency cut-off point for this study is at 60 per million words, and they must also appear at least in three different texts and in two subcorpora. In total, there are 79 lexical bundles identified for vehicular accident news and they are further categorized based on their functions as stance expressions, discourse organizers, referential expressions, and news-specific functions. The patterns and contexts of usage for each lexical bundles are discussed in detail so that they can be of use for teachers and students.

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Leelasetakul, M. (2025). “Dead at the Scene” and More: Lexical Bundles in Accident News. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 18(2), 78–107. https://doi.org/10.70730/EUQT4958
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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2025): LEARN Journal (July - December)
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Research Articles
Author Biography

Muthurin Leelasetakul, Department of English, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Mathurin Leelasetakul: A lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and a researcher in the Corpus Linguistics for Digital Humanities Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Her interests include English language teaching and corpus linguistics.

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