Lithuanian academic vocabulary: a corpus-based study

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Akademinis žodynas; Akademinė leksika; Kolokacija; Kolokacijos; Leksinė samplaika; Leksinės sankaupos; Semantinė (pragmatinė) funkcija; Semantinės (pragmatinės) funkcijos; Teksto turinys; Tekstynas; Žodžių junginiai; (pragmatic) function; Academic vocabulary; Collocation; Corpus; Lexical bundle; Lithuanian; Semantic; Semantic (pragmatic) function.

ENThe aim of this study is to explore the frequency of Lithuanian academic words and expressions, and to analyse their structure and semantics applying the corpus-based approach. This paper focuses on academic vocabulary used in Lithuanian research papers. The following objectives have been raised to achieve the aim: 1. to build a corpus of research papers published in the Lithuanian language over the past decade; 2. to identify the most frequent words and expressions (collocations) in Lithuanian academic writing applying statistical methods; 3. to explore the distribution, discourse functions, variability, semantic and pragmatic values of academic words. This paper first gives a brief overview of the key terms and theoretical background, then presents the research results and ends with the summary of the main findings. [From the publication]