Mousavi, Seyyed Ahmad

[ 1 ] - Nominalization in the Research Article Discussion Sections of Local and International Journals of Applied Linguistics

This study aimed at investigating the tendency of research article (RA) authors for the application of nominalization in RA discussion sections from the perspective of two discourse communities. To this end, 150 RA discussion sections were selected from local and international Applied Linguistics journals. Following the rhetorical structure analysis of the corpus and the move tagging, the autho...