The Metatextual Role of Introductions to Ba Papers

• Authors: Loredana Pungă , Mirela Borchin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article builds on a comparative analysis based on a corpus of literature and linguistics BA papers submitted by students majoring in English and Romanian, at the University of Timișoara. The authors highlight the metatextual function of introductions, focusing on identifying, classifying, and commenting upon deictic and non-deictic linguistic elements through which this function is fulfilled, in an attempt to see how consistently they are used by the student writers and to raise awareness of their use and usefulness.

Keywords

EN

deictic linguistic elements; non-deictic linguistic elements; introductions; metatextual function

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 36-47

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Loredana Pungă

• West University of Timișoara

author

Mirela Borchin

• West University of Timișoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0005