從語法隱喻理論析名物化在法律語言中的功能及運(yùn)用.pdf

1、A marked feature of English texts is their informational density and high degree of nominalization. Nouns are used in hyphenated pairs or dyads, and sometimes in triads, tetrads, and pentads. Nouns are used as adjectives

2、 without change of the form,and they are even used as verbs, with or without being suffixed. It seems to be a received wisdom of the linguistic community that the English language is characterized by its noun-tendency. S

3、olan (125) and Gibbons (109) have claimed a tendency in English of "preponderance of nouns over verbs"; Liu Miqing holds in his CE-EC Contrastive Studies and Translation that "(t)he English language has the tendency to u

4、se nouns and prepositions, while the Chinese language verbs" (42). Lian Shuneng concludes that "the English language shows a tendency to employ nouns more frequently, which results in a static narration; however, the Chi

5、nese language is inclined to resort to verbs rather than nouns, and as a result, its narration is dynamic"(87). He also determines that "(n)ominalization often occurs in the English language"(119) as is witnessed by pass