2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Some Investigations of Nominal Compounds in Chemistry Papers written in English

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20500786
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Science education
Research Institution	Sophia University
Principal Investigator	FRANK ScottHowell Sophia University, 理工学部, 教授 (60286763)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	HASHIMOTO Takeshi 上智大学, 理工学部, 助教 (20333049)
Research Collaborator	INOMATA Yoshie 上智大学, 理工学部, 元准教授 (20255714)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	化学英語 / 複合名詞 / コーパス / 錯体化学 / 科学リテラシー
Research Abstract	Nominal compounds (NCs) were studied from two points of view. 1. We compared the use frequency of NCs of each chapter of the articles that Japanese wrote in Inorganic Chemistry with those of the chemist from the English zone. The use frequency of NCs of both areas was approximately equal and we understood that the Japanese NCs use was appropriate. We examined also expression hidden in NCs. 2. We searched frequent appearance NCs used in the articles that the chemists of the English zone wrote in the Dalton Transactions, and then examined a use of NCs by PERC corpus. We find that the subordination word of NCs took the singular form, and that when "noun+noun" and "adjective+noun" took the same meaning, the former had a role to limit the meaning.

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