Generic The in Scientific American  

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Master, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 6 no. 3 (1987), page 165 - 186.
Fulltext: 06_03_Master.pdf (1.53MB)

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The use of generic the and its aIternatives 0 and a(n) is investigated at a range of discourse levels in a series of articles from Scientific American. Generic the was found to occur less frequently than generic 0 but much more frequently than generic a (n). It was the most likely of the three generic articles to occur with noun phrases in subject position. It was more likely to be found in the first sentence of a paragraph than in the last, and it was more likely to be found in introductions and conclusions than elsewhere. Finally, generic the was more likely than a(n) or 0 to mark the topic of a scientific essay and other NPs that contribute to the author's argument. These usages appear to reflect the apparent focused, causal nature of generic the. in contradistinction to the more descriptive generic 0 and a(n).

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