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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6. STAGE 2: DEVELOPING A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF COHESIVE REFERENCE
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6.7. Conclusions: practical and theoretical implications

6.7. Conclusions: practical and theoretical implications

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The application of Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) taxonomy can provide descriptive data about the frequency and length of cohesive ties that was obtained using the original taxonomy. In comparison with our new tool, the only detail about reference that was lost here concerns the specific grammatical categories of the items; however, the main types remain. Therefore, little is lost in comparison to what is gained in describing the cohesive functions they serve. In addition, the new tool can meaningfully describe not only local but also global patterns (new and extended chains, linear, merging and splitting chains) of referential cohesion, both within subsections of the text and concerning the whole RA. As regards the length of chains, preliminary results of the study support the hypothesis that the longest cohesive referential chains carry the main messages of RAs. On the basis of a corpus of ten research articles, this exploratory study has shown that even RAs written by native English authors contain ambiguous referring items.

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On the whole, this pilot study has managed to add more “discipline” (Mosenthal & Tierney, 1984, 240) to the subjectivity inherent in text analysis. Additionally, it has been successful in identifying areas in which the proposed analytical tool needs to be refined and revised. Through the procedures of the analysis in this section, an area where our reliability results could be improved was found to be the disambiguation of cohesive and non-cohesive reference.
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