Abstract
This study explores the differences in collocation use between academic and non-academic English through a corpus-based approach. Collocations are recurrent word combinations that contribute to fluency and natural language use. The research aims to identify the most frequent collocational patterns in both types of discourse and to compare their structural and functional characteristics. Two corpora were compiled: one containing academic journal articles and the other consisting of news articles, blogs, and general web texts. The analysis focused on adjective–noun, noun–noun, and verb–noun collocations. The findings reveal that academic English relies heavily on formal and discipline-related collocations, while non-academic English favors more conversational and flexible combinations. The study highlights the importance of collocational competence for effective communication and demonstrates the usefulness of corpus linguistics in examining language variation.
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