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Exploring Nominalization in Scientific Textbooks: A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Hard and Soft Sciences
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Jalilifar, Alireza; White, Peter; Malekizadeh, N. – International Journal of English Studies, 2017
Given the importance of disciplinary specificity in terms of the potential differences in the functionality of nominalizations in scientific textbooks and the dearth of studies of this type, the current study explores the extent to which nominalization is realized across two disciplines. To this aim, eight academic textbooks from Physics and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Physics