چکیده:
This study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. The books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. Results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. Furthermore, the density of nominalization was calculated by dividing their frequency by the total number of words. Results acknowledged the greater concentration of nominalization in the applied linguistics book. Furthermore, the proportion of nominalization to grammatical metaphor was calculated. Results demonstrated the greater tendency towards nominalizing scientific information in the applied linguistics book. This research can contribute to a better understanding of nominalization in academic textbooks and, thus, improve English for Specific Purposes learners’ use of nominalization in their writing. However, further research is needed to see how nominalization is exploited in other genres and other disciplines.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Thus, in the following examples, the original words alcohol and extra packer are displaced by the metaphoric expressions, and so are reduced to modifying these expressions: Alcohol becomes a classifier of impairment; an extra packer goes into the prepositional phrase functioning as qualifier to allocation: is impaired by alcohol alcohol impairment They allocate an extra packer the allocation of extra packer The use of nominalization in scientific discourse has been the subject of a wide array of studies in recent years, following the economy principle, for example, the historical origins of nominalization in scientific discourse (Banks, 2005), the realization of grammatical metaphor in modern prose fiction (Farahani & Hadidi, 2008), the contribution of verb-based nominalization to cohesion in 892 pages of history texts (Susinskiene, 2009), nominalization in the writing of six undergraduate students (Baratta, 2010), and the role of nominalization in the English Medical Papers (EMP) produced by native English speakers and Chinese writers (Wenyan, 2012).
A possible additional benefit of the current study, which seems to have been underrepresented in the existing literature, is that the study can serve as a starting point for courses in genre analysis of applied linguistics and biology texts with special emphasis on their grammatical metaphor in the form of nominalization which enhances the features of scientific precision and consciousness.
Grammatical metaphor in the form of nominalized process is widely recognized as an important feature of scientific text developed in modern English scientific writing (Halliday & Martin, 2005).