Nominalizations are well-known features of scientific writing. Scholars have been intrigued by their form and by their functions. While these features have been widely studied, the cognitive side of nominalizations in scientific texts still needs further attention. Nominalizations contribute to the advancement of discourse and at the same time add abstraction to the processes they convey and make them become more reified in the eyes of the reader. They are not mere verbal transformations as they change completely the cognitive configuration of the process they express. With examples retrieved from the astronomy subcorpus (CETA, 2012) of the Coruna Corpus the aim is to study nominalizations in the interface between cognition and language. The ultimate goal is to complement all the theoretical-descriptive studies on the topic by approaching the cognitive dimension and build a bridge for studies on the production and understanding of English scientific register.

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名词化对科学话语发展的认知影响

名词化是科学写作的众所周知的特征。学者们对它们的形式和功能很感兴趣。尽管对这些特征进行了广泛研究，但科学文献中名词化的认知方面仍需要进一步关注。名词化有助于话语的发展，同时又增加了它们所传达的过程的抽象性，并使它们在读者眼中变得更加具体化。它们不仅仅是语言转换，因为它们完全改变了它们表达的过程的认知结构。通过从Coruna语料库的天文子语料库（CETA，2012）中检索到的示例，目的是研究认知与语言之间的接口中的名词化。