Signposts for the reader: A corpus-based study of text deixis
D Kurzon - Text-Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 1985 - degruyter.com
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This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the occurrence of text deixis in a number of
texts taken from the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus ofBritish English. Text deixis refers to
those expressions that we use either to teil the reader his or her location, eg in a chapter,
section or paragraph, or to direct the reader to anotherpart ofthe same text. It was found that
a distinction may be made between narrative and nonnarrative texts. The former do not
contain text deixis, while the latter are sub-divided into groups on the basis of the frequency …
texts taken from the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus ofBritish English. Text deixis refers to
those expressions that we use either to teil the reader his or her location, eg in a chapter,
section or paragraph, or to direct the reader to anotherpart ofthe same text. It was found that
a distinction may be made between narrative and nonnarrative texts. The former do not
contain text deixis, while the latter are sub-divided into groups on the basis of the frequency …
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the occurrence of text deixis in a number of texts taken from the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus ofBritish English.
Text deixis refers to those expressions that we use either to teil the reader his or her location, eg in a chapter, section or paragraph, or to direct the reader to anotherpart ofthe same text. It was found that a distinction may be made between narrative and nonnarrative texts. The former do not contain text deixis, while the latter are sub-divided into groups on the basis of the frequency of occurrence of text deixis.
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