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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Appendix E – The role of numerals in reference

Appendix E – The role of numerals in reference

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Jegyzet elhelyezéséhez, kérjük, lépj be.!

 
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Jegyzet elhelyezéséhez, kérjük, lépj be.!

Going from sentence 74 to 70 in the interpretation of this text segment, we first encounter the referring item the three drafts. While the definiteness of the phrase is partially provided by the possessive structure (of a section…), looking merely at sentence 74 will not explain why three? why not all the drafts?. If one starts looking for the anaphor in the previous sentences, they first encounter three versions as a possible candidate; still, sentence 72 does not specify the versions of what? are being talked about. Moving on to sentence 71, one can see that 71 contains drafts, which readers will probably all understand as a synonym of versions and as a repetition of drafts in 74, but without stopping at three versions, it would not be possible to interpret the three in the definite phrase in 74. There is only one further step to be taken. There needs to be a full form for the abbreviation in 71 for us to recover the full referent, which can be constructed from sentence 70: several drafts of Literature Review texts. This means that to arrive at the full referent of the three drafts a mediating item was needed and the inclusion of two more sentences.
 
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