On the significance of disciplinary variation in research articles: Perspectives from nominalization

Kaidan, Zhila Heidari; Jalilifar, Alireza; Don, Alexanne; Li, Jun

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2021.1890872

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“…That is, the use of verb (process) to noun (entity) outnumbered the use of adjective (quality) to noun (entity) in both corpora (LERAIs: 198 (76.2%) vs. LIRAIs: 315 (76.3%). This finding is in line with Mehrabi, et al (2018) and Kaidan, Jalilifar, & Don (2018) who postulated that those two kinds were prevalent in texts and verb to noun dominates the other types. More specifically, verbs have suffixes added to become nouns predominated the other types of verb to noun and verbs change their stems to become nouns represented the least frequently used type of verb to noun across both corpora (LERAIs: 41 (20.7%) vs. LIRAIs: 79 (25.1%).…”

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“…However, there was no significant difference in the lexical density of the introduction sections of the two datasets. In contrast, Kaidan, Jalilifar, & Don (2018) who identified occurrences of nominalization in different types of RAs in physics and AL found that the writers in AL used nominalization more frequently than their counterparts in physics. Also, their analysis showed that the deployment of the second type of nominalization (verb Hinkel (2004b) examined the usage of tenses, aspects (perfect/progressive) and the passive voice in academic texts written by NESs and NNESs.…”

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Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Research Articles' Introduction Sections Published in Egyptian and International Journals in Linguistics

المدنی¹

2024

مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم

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The present paper seeks to analyze the process types of transitivity, nominalization types, tense usage, and voice choice of Research Article Introductions (RAIs) written by Egyptian and international researchers in linguistics. The corpus of the study consists of 50 RAIs selected from Egyptian and international journals from 2014 to 2021. The study is based on Halliday's (1967) Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) for identifying processes of transitivity and nominalization types. It also depends on both qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze the selected data. It has been found that the two groups were similar in terms of transitivity process types.That is, material process which indicate actions, had the highest percentage compared to the other processes. Both samples also used the first kind of nominalization (verb to noun) more frequently than the second one (adjective to noun). As for tense and voice, both Egyptian and international Research Articles (RAs) were found to be similar in using present simple tense and active voice the most. The current paper contributes to a better understanding of the transitivity system, nominalization types, tense usage and voice choice.

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Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Research Articles' Introduction Sections Published in Egyptian and International Journals in Linguistics

المدنی¹

2024

مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم

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“…Therefore, the Red Book is adopted to specify relevant details and define the boundaries of rights and obligations of the stakeholders. Nouns and nominalizations are also deemed efficient devices for presenting the key issues (Chen et al, 2018), which can condense information directly and explicitly (Kaidan et al, 2021). Furthermore, nouns and nominalizations can increase the degree of formality and authority of the General Conditions (Liu, 2008;Orts, 2015;Heidari Kaidan et al, 2021).…”

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Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Yuzhu,

Ibrahim

2024

IJARBSS

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The increased exchanges of construction endeavors between China and her international counterparts have highlighted the importance of construction contracts, underlining the significance of the FIDIC Conditions for its wide adoption worldwide. However, a language perspective has yet to be adopted when exploring construction contracts. This study aims to uncover the language features of the General Conditions in the Red Book of FIDIC Conditions from the scope of the Multi-dimensional approach, which is conducive to a better understanding of construction contracts. In this study, salient language features of the General Conditions were uncovered in a visualized manner through the employment of the Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT). It was found that nouns and normalization were frequently used in the General Conditions, with high frequencies of attributive adjectives, total prepositional phrases, predictive modals, and passive voice (agentless passives and bypassives). As to the general genre features of the Red Book, it was found to possess the features of being information-oriented, non-narrative, context-independent, self-assertive, abstract, and non-real-time-oriented. Those features further render the conditions formality in style, explicitness in communicative purposes, objectivity in stance, and authority in position. Such findings interrelate with each other and corroborate each other. They are of great professional and pedagogical significance for non-native practitioners.

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Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study

Yuan

2022

Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning

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The aim of this study was to explore the use of nominalizations in segmented abstracts, examining their distribution and characteristics and whether they differ from traditional non-segmented abstracts in terms of the use of nominalizations. The study adopted a corpus-based approach, querying nominalization tokens using suffixes of nominalization, to analyse different sections of abstracts from 30 research articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Statistical analysis revealed that the Conclusions section among the four sections (Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions) utilized nominalizations most frequently, and a significant difference was found in the frequency of nominalizations between the four sections. The most frequently used suffixes of nominalization were -sion/-tion, followed by -ment and -ity, all of which reflected the functions of nominalization such as information condensation, cohesion construction, and agent or doer avoidance. Segmented abstracts show distinct strategies for the adoption of nominalizations in different sections. This study will contribute to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in writing research articles.

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On the significance of disciplinary variation in research articles: Perspectives from nominalization

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Research Articles' Introduction Sections Published in Egyptian and International Journals in Linguistics

Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Research Articles' Introduction Sections Published in Egyptian and International Journals in Linguistics

Exploring Language Features of FIDIC Conditions from the Lens of Multi-dimensional Approach

Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study

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