Nominalisation Back to Meta Model diagram (click)
The Meta Model looks at the language patterns we make, which are made at the surface level (click to read) to recover the deleted information.
A Nominalisation is a process or state that has been made or spoken as a noun, a real thing.
A typical nominalised word could be “love” in the statement:-
“Nobody loves me.”
The word “love” is a process or state, and needs definition, as each of us will have a different meaning for the word love. We need to find-out what exactly does the person who is saying the sentence means by “love”.
A good test to test if a word has been nominalised is to try and put the word in a wheelbarrow or a container.
Can you capture “love” into a wheelbarrow or container? No, therefore we need to chunk down, to get the real meaning of what “love” means by asking such a question as:-
“What do you mean by the word love?”
We will turn the nominalised word back into a verb, the process or state.
Other words as examples of nominalisations could be:-
“hate”, “jealousy”, “respect”, “fun”, “harmony”, “depression”, “tired”