Gabriella Jenei: Referential Cohesion in Academic Writing • A descriptive and exploratory theory- and corpus-based study of the text-organizing role of reference in written academic discourse
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11.5. Limitations

11.5. Limitations

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The study is limited by its focus on one particular mode of discourse and one given genre in the field of academic writing. Nevertheless, the conclusions drawn based on our data can be transferred to other academic texts. Further valuable insights could be gained from analyzing different text types as indicated by the substantially different referential structure of the theoretical papers and case studies that were eliminated from the corpus of MA thesis papers in order to ensure the meaningful and more reliable comparison of the corpus to empirical RAs.

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Another obvious limitation of this study is that it does not cover every aspect of cohesion, but is restricted to referential cohesion only. Concerning the review of the types of reference, reference chains and errors the problematic nature of discussing reference in isolation has already been pointed out. It became clear that the notion of reference chains cannot be fully covered without the other forms of cohesion, and that the arbitrary exclusion of ellipsis (especially that of nominal elements) or lexical cohesion (exact repetition in particular) may distort the underlying patterns of referential chains that are discoverable. The method for referential cohesion analysis presented in this book easily lends itself to the inclusion of lexical repetition or ellipsis in much the same way as reference is analysed.
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