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Lexical cohesion in popular vs. theoretical scientific texts

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F10%3A00047603" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/10:00047603 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Lexical cohesion in popular vs. theoretical scientific texts

  • Original language description

    Lexical cohesion, i.e. selection of lexical items which are in some way related to other lexical items in a text, contributes importantly to creating the texture, as defined by Halliday and Hasan (1976), and increases the overall coherence of the text. The article looks into different devices of lexical cohesion employed in scientific texts, namely reiterations (including exact repetitions and synonyms), use of superordinate expressions and general terms, and marginally also collocations. It is built upon an assumption that two basic types of scientific text, popular and theoretical ones, display some differences in the ratios between these lexical cohesive devices as well as in the frequency of their occurrence in each individual type. The analysis has been undertaken on two corpora of texts dealing with various topics in physics, comparing a text which is highly theoretical with one covering the same respective topic, adapted rather for didactic purposes or purposes of popular scienc

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AI - Linguistics

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2010

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Interpretation of Meaning Across Discourses

  • ISBN

    978-80-210-5376-2

  • Number of pages of the result

    14

  • Pages from-to

  • Number of pages of the book

    259

  • Publisher name

    Masaryk University

  • Place of publication

    Brno

  • UT code for WoS chapter