Abstract
This paper presents the results of a pilot study on the occurrence of text deixis in a number of texts taken from the Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English. Text deixis refers to those expressions that we use either to tell the reader his or her location, e.g. in a chapter, section or paragraph, or to direct the reader to another part of the same text. It was found that a distinction may be made between narrative and non-narrative texts. The former do not contain text deixis, while the latter are sub-divided into groups on the basis of the frequency of occurrence of text deixis.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 187-200 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Text |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory