Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study
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 nomina...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-4affbf96013b4f93a9c7e6dd86cb070c2025-01-20T11:08:49ZengDe GruyterJournal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning2748-34792022-12-012228129810.1515/jccall-2022-0026Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based studyYuan Yuwei0University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaThe 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.https://doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2022-0026corpus-based analysisespgrammatical metaphornominalizationresearch articlessegmented abstractssystemic functional linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Yuan Yuwei Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study Journal of China Computer-Assisted Language Learning corpus-based analysis esp grammatical metaphor nominalization research articles segmented abstracts systemic functional linguistics |
| title | Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study |
| title_full | Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study |
| title_fullStr | Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study |
| title_short | Examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts: a corpus-based study |
| title_sort | examining the application of nominalization in segmented abstracts a corpus based study |
| topic | corpus-based analysis esp grammatical metaphor nominalization research articles segmented abstracts systemic functional linguistics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/jccall-2022-0026 |
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