Title Nominalization as a lexico-grammatical cohesive device in science popular texts /
Translation of Title Nominalizacija kaip leksinė-gramatinė rišlumo priemonė mokslo populiarinamuosiuose tekstuose.
Authors Sušinskienė, Solveiga
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Is Part of Filologija : mokslo darbai.. Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2012, Nr. 17, p. 133-144.. ISSN 1392-561X
Keywords [eng] nominalization ; popular science texts ; lexico-grammatical ; coherence ; explicit ; implicit
Abstract [eng] The aim of the present study is to analyse English science popular texts with regard to lexico-grammatical cohesive device – nominalization. The analysis is based on a corpus of 150 articles drawn from the on-line magazine POPULAR SCIENCE (http://www.popsci.com/) covering the period from January, 2011 to March, 2012. The corpus has been designed to contribute to nominalization patterns which function in such texts. For the purpose of this study, the descriptive-analytical method was used in order to explain and disclose the nominalizations as cohesive devices. As the present work is not a transformational account of nominalizations in English, the transformational method was only employed to show the relationship between the underlying proposition and the respective nominalization. The genre of popular science is different from specialized (i.e. research or academic) science in its predominant features of interaction between writers and readers. The writing is rather personalized, end the main purpose is just to present the information to the readers while in specialized writing the author communicates accurate information to the readers. On a surface structure level, the sense relations between the text-sentences must be realized using appropriate structural signals. These signals form four groups: grammatical, lexico-grammatical, lexico-syntactic and lexical. Nominalization belongs to lexico-grammatical cohesive devices. In the corpus under analysis, nominalizations functioned in two patterns of cohesive relations: implicitly and explicitly. The results of the present study have demonstrated that nominalization plays an important role in the organization of science popular texts: it significantly increases the general volume of information in an economical way and contributes the lexico-grammatical cohesion of the text.
Published Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2012