Nominalization in Applied Linguistics and Medicine: The Case of Textbook Introductions and Book Reviews

Jalilifar, Alireza; Elhambakhsh, Seyedeh Elham; White, Peter R. R.

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“…Besides, a large number of comparative researches keep appearing on the use of nominalizations to expose disciplinary differences and variations in academic discourses, for example, Jalilifar et al (2014Jalilifar et al ( , 2017, Gonzalez and Valeska (2019), Marr and Mahmood (2021), Ahmad (2012), He and Yang (2018), etc. There is a demonstration that nominalizations in academic discourses are not sensitive across disciplines, and some of the above studies indeed verified that there is no significant variation across disciplines on nominalization in scientific language (Jalilifar et al 2014, He and Yang 2018, and other studies revealed nominalization was designed with the universality and technicality without mentioning any disciplinary differences nominalization used (Ahmad 2012).…”

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Exploring Nominalization in Academic Writing: A Comparative Study of Shipbuilding and Oceanography Engineering and Linguistics

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2023

AJP

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Nominalization, as a universal linguistic phenomenon, is widely used in academic discourse in various fields. In recent years, corpus-based approaches to nominalization have become increasingly prevalent, but nominalization involving academic discourse of Marine-related majors receives little attention. Therefore, this paper selects 108 academic discourse abstracts of Shipbuilding and Oceanography Engineering and 50 abstracts of Linguistics academic discourses, based on the definition of nominalization, the common form of ideational grammatical metaphor from Halliday and Zhu Yongsheng’s classification to achieve the analysis of nominalization. It explores the cross-disciplinary differences and frequency of different types of nominalizations and their functions in the selected abstracts. The results show that the common use of nominalizations and the most frequent type is “take process as thing” which shows a significant difference across the two disciplines, signifying disciplinary differences in academic writing. Besides, this paper finds the three most commonly used nominal patterns of each corpus. It provides a couple of possible reasons and elaborate explanations for the particular consequence, expecting that it can contribute to future research in this field and abstract writing in academic discourse. Keywords: nominalization, grammatical metaphor, academic writing, disciplinary differences and similarities

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“… 2. Nominalizations “condense information by expressing concepts in an incongruent form which is very valued in scientific registers” (Jalilifar et al, 2014), p. 36. …”

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Reading Research Genre: The Impact of Thematic Progression

Chang¹

2021

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The research genre has specific communicative purposes which require students to understand the tone, generic and disciplinary conventions. The present study explored the potential of thematic progression (TP) to contribute to research argument readability. TP concerns how clauses encode information and how that information is carried forward. Three major types of TP include: (a) constant TP; (b) linear TP; and (c) derived TP. Overuse of constant TP often prevents a text from developing, while linear TP better contributes to cohesion. It was hypothesized that an effective TP pattern, if present, may help graduate students better grasp the gist in research arguments. Two groups of participants, native and non-native speakers of English, were recruited to read six Introductions of varying TP patterns and conceptualize their readability. The results revealed that the TP pattern may not have strong predictive power; rather, fewer information breaks better predict readability. Regardless of TP patterns, heavy themes and rhemes may impede understanding. Static and simple themes also do not facilitate readability. The use of metadiscursive devices may facilitate readability on condition that the themes are informative. Effective lexical chains and marked themes, which signal the ties between clauses, also ease processing.

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Nominalization in Applied Linguistics and Medicine: The Case of Textbook Introductions and Book Reviews

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