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О номинализацији у језику академске заједнице
On Nominalization in the Language of the Academic Community

Author(s): Ivana Z. Marinković
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Lexis
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: nominalization;academic discourse;scientific functional style

Summary/Abstract: In this paper lexical and syntactic properties of academic discourse are analyzed. Reviewing the literature we noticed the diversity of terminology for the language of academic community. The research is mostly based on theoretical analysis sub-genre of academic discorse, for example scientific article. It is shown that there is hight frequency of nominalized construction in this kind of discourse, as well as some other features of birocratic language, which results in hight degree of abstractness.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2012
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 161-170
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Serbian