- With an increasing interest in genre-based research and curricula, it is important to integrate descriptions of both the top-down and bottom-up characteristics of language that help identify one genre as being distinct from another
- It has been suggested that one component which realises generic distinctiveness is the textual metafunction of language, Halliday's notion of theme
- In order to explore their potential for within-text structuring in scientific discourse, marked themes in a corpus of research articles
- were analysed and described. Results indicate that thematic flow can be predicted on the basis of the rhetorical goals inherent in each section of RA discourse.
- Finally, we selected instances of the pronoun this in sentence-initial position, defined as those cases in which this is the first nominal element functioning as the subject of the sentence
- We focused on the pronoun this in sentence-initial position since elements in initial position generally have two important organizational textual functions: they link the present portion of the text with previous parts, and they guide the reader in the interpretation of the following parts of the text
- In the second stage of the study, we selected those cases in which this, in sentence-initial position, was used as an anaphoric encapsulator establishing cohesion across sentence boundaries and condensing an extended stretch of text, such as a sentence or a paragraph, as illustrated in the example:
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