On the significance of disciplinary variation in research articles: Perspectives from nominalization
Cogent Education, 2021 The present study explored nominalization use in a sample of research articles (RAs) of various types in physics and applied linguistics. To this end, 134 RAs from the related journals of these disciplines were carefully selected and studied to identify ...
Zhila Heidari Kaidan +2 more
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Analyzing the semiotic nature of GIFs: visual nominalization and visual telicity
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2022 GIFs, short audio-free loops of moving sequences, are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor, mediate power and signal identity.
Fan Yi
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Nominalization in high- and low-rated L2 undergraduate writing
International Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2023 Nominalizations, or nouns derived from verbs or adjectives through suffixes, are a pervasive characteristic feature of written academic discourse. To better understand the nature of nominalization in L2 student writing and its relation to assessment in ...
Tetyana (Tanya) Bychkovska +1 more
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Nominalization in Persian: Evidence for low negation
Glossa, 2022 This paper uses a novel argument based on nominalization to argue for a low structural position for negation in Persian. This proposal is advanced in two stages.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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Critical Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor of Nominalization in English and Persian Political Discourses [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2016 Nominalization is one of the metaphors introduced by Halliday, which is a part of ideational meta-function. The present research study is an attempt to investigate the role of nominalization in political Persian and English discourses from Van Dijk’s ...
Ebrahim Rezapour, Shiva Ahmadi
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On the stylistic, ideological and utilitarian aspects of nominalization in Serbian [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2008 The author deals with certain aspects of nominalization (the use of verbal or adjectival nouns instead of verbs) that have not received much attention in Serbian scientific literature.
Klikovac Duška
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Exploring Nominalization in Physics and Applied Linguistics Textbooks with Different Levels of Difficulty: Implications for English for Specific [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2017 This study sought to investigate the variational use of nominalization in Physics and Applied Linguistics textbooks representing the hard and soft ends of the continuum of sciences, respectively. The study also aimed to compare and contrast the functions
Alireza Jalilifar, Mehran Memari
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Nominalization in Academic Writing: A Cross-disciplinary Investigation of Physics and Applied Linguistics Empirical Research Articles [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2018 The present study aimed to explore how nominalization is manifested in a sample of Physics and Applied Linguistics research articles (RAs), representing hard and soft sciences respectively.
Alireza Jalilifar +2 more
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Nominalization and Lowered Perception of Agency in Discourse: An Empirical Study [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 Could the way an event is encoded in language affect people’s perception of the responsibility attributed to the agent of the event? This article aimed to empirically investigate the effect of nominalization on the participants’ perception of the ...
Ramin Golshaie, Fatemeh Sadat Hosseini
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Nominalization in the Writing of Novice vs. Experienced Members of Academic Communities: A Comparative Discourse Analysis [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2015 The language register used in academic communities has the special features of density, complexity, and abstractness which are associated with nominalization with which new members of the communities might not be familiar.
Abdullah Sarani, Amir Talati
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