Abdullah Sarani

[ 1 ] - Nominalization in the Writing of Novice vs. Experienced Members of Academic Communities: A Comparative Discourse Analysis

The language register used in academic communities has the special features of density, complexity, and abstractness which are associated with nominalization with which new members of the communities might not be familiar. To explore the possible distance between novice and established members regarding their awareness of this grammatical feature, the present study investigated the employment o...