TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wendy Swanson
PY  - 2003
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
TI  - Modes of Co-reference as an Indicator of Genre
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094861
N2  - 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.
KW  - 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)
LA  - English
ER  -