<![CDATA[This research explored how Indonesian ethnopharmacological knowledge was linguistically represented in English academic discourse, addressing concerns about the marginalization and transformation of indigenous knowledge within global scientific communication. Even though the growing recognition of traditional herbal medicine arose, its integration into international publications required adaptation to dominant linguistic conventions, potentially changing its original cultural meanings. The theoretical framework of this research was mostly on Halliday & Matthiessen (2014) perspective and his elaboration in related aspect (area) in morphosyntax by Croft (2022) and corpus analysis by Biber (2011). This research examined how morphosyntactic features function as meaning-making resources in the construction of scientific discourse. A corpus-based approach was employed using AntConc to analyze a dataset of English-language journal articles on Indonesian ethnopharmacology published between 2020 and 2025. The analysis focused on three key morphosyntactic features, which were nominalization, passive constructions, and hedging. Results of this research indicated that nominalization was the most dominant feature (395 occurrences; 46.20%), followed by passive voice (285 occurrences; 33.33%), and hedging (175 occurrences; 20.47%). The analysis showed that nominalization contributed to abstraction and informational density, passive constructions construct objectivity through depersonalization, and hedging expresses epistemic caution. The findings indicated that Indonesian ethnopharmacological knowledge was not simply translated into English but was morphosyntactically reconstructed to align with global scientific norms. While this improved scientific legitimacy and international visibility, it might also reduce the cultural and contextual richness of traditional knowledge. This study highlighted the critical role of language in creating knowledge systems and for more balanced approaches to representing indigenous knowledge in global academic discourse.]]>
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