This study compared the five-word lexical bundles (LBs) expressing gratitude in acknowledgments of dissertations written by Chinese and American PhD students of linguistics. Two corpora were built: (1) The Chinese University Dissertation Acknowledgments Collection (CUC) which contained 700 acknowledgments with a total of 300. 686 tokens. and (2) the American University Dissertation Ac... https://chefesquipmenters.shop/product-category/culinary-torches/