Nominalizastion in Indonesian Scientific Texts: Cases of Four Journal Articles
This paper reports a case study of nominalization in four journal articles in biology, economics, social science, and language written in Indonesian. In order to know the pattern of nominalization in the four articles, the clauses containing nominalization are identified, seen from whether the lexical items in the four articles are realized congruently or incongruently. The data analysis shows that nominalization in the four articles is realized by means of grammatical metaphor where verbs, adjectives, adverbs, modals, and conjunctions are metaphorically shifted to nouns. From the total lexical items incongruently employed in the four articles, the nominalization amounts to 97.6 ％ in Biology Text, 95.2 ％ in Economics Text, 96 ％ in Social Science Text, and 97.8 ％ in Language Text. The findings about nominalization are not only ideationally significant to the abstraction of real world (Martin, 1991, 1993a, 1993b; Halliday, 1993a, 1993b, 1998), but also textually significant to the text structure of the articles (Hyland, 2008).
nominalization scientific text grammatical metaphor
Tri WIRATNO
Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
97-104
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）