Action Nominalizations in Business English: A Corpus Study

Action nominalizations are employed in business English to attain a higher degree of condensation, abstraction, and accuracy. This paper reports on a corpus-based study of the actual usage patterns of -tion nominals in business news. In contrast to previous corpus-based studies of nominalizations...

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Main Author: Camelia Bejan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ovidius University Press 2024-02-01
Series:Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
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Online Access:https://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/ENG/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-1.pdf