LEXICAL BUNDLES IN ENGLISH HOROSCOPES: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract

To increase the fluency of communication and discourse production, lexical bundles can be quite helpful. In natural conversation, combinations of multiple or more words are often referred to as lexical bundles, a multi-word unit. Other researchers have compared lexical bundles across fields using initial classifications introduced in primary studies about the development of functional and structural categories of lexical bundles. To examine and research the structural and operational aspects of the lexical bundles, however, no thorough investigation has been done in the genre of English horoscopes. This study conducted a detailed analysis of lexical bundles in selected English horoscopes. The frequency with which horoscopes appear in daily publications speaks to their popularity. Horoscopes are equally popular in established and emerging nations in the west and east, regardless of whether there is a connection between the motion of celestial bodies and daily decision-making. Horoscopes are a favorite and a religion shared by all readers. The objective of this study was accomplished by compiling and researching a corpus of English horoscopes published on different web pages. Antconc, a corpus linguistics tool for calculating the frequency and co-occurrence of expressions, is used to run the frequency of co-occurrences of the other lexical bundles in the English horoscopes. The decision to employ Antconc is an effort to restrict the scope of the investigation. While a sizable portion of the lexical bundles discovered shared traits with those previously reported in the literature, a sizable amount also revealed novel structural and functional traits. The study's conclusions discuss some theoretical and instructional ramifications of the research. It was also recommended that qualitative investigations be conducted to examine the usages of lexical bundles in a limited and focused corpus since content investigations are likely to assist in the growth of writers and the creation of academic writing programs.