This is a study on stance bundles in spoken English corpora. Enlightened by Sinclair’s (2004) “lexical grammar” theory, the author did a “second processing” of some 4-word-bundle lists automatically retrieved by previous corpus linguists from several large spoken English corpora，and worked out a typically formal, semantic and pragmatic pattern of stance bundles. The pattern is then used to compare two homogeneous mini-corpora by British and Chinese university students respectively. The results reveal that stance bundles in these two types of students have marked difference not only in terms of frequency and types, but also in semantic orientation and pragmatic functions, thus bringing about reflections on EFL education in China.
Key words
corpus /
stance bundle /
spoken English /
English teaching
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