%0 Book
%A Wendy Swanson
%D 2003
%C Lausanne, Switzerland
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1424-8689
%T Modes of Co-reference as an Indicator of Genre
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094861
%X This book explores the property of co-reference within various texts as a possible means of distinguishing genre types. Based on observed rather than invented material, it supplies empirical data on co-reference as a cohesive mechanism within authentic English texts. Co-referential form and frequency are identified in nine texts representing three genres: academic journals, news magazine articles and fictional narrative texts.  This study offers not only quantitative but also qualitative information regarding co-reference in three individual text types, thereby laying the foundation for a comparative study of the three different genres. Focusing on the property of co-reference in this way singles out differences in language use and allows for some pertinent statements to be made regarding modes of co-reference as an indicator of text variety.
%K Referenz (Linguistik), co-reference linked to language use, quantitative /qualitative similarities, Diskursanalyse, Textsorte, text cohesion, genre characteristics, language variation, anaphora versus cataphora, register variables (field, mode, tenor)
%G English