<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

The Metatextual Role of Introductions to Ba Papers

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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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,...

The Metatextual Role of Introductions to Ba Papers

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 36 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0005

Keywords
deictic linguistic elements, non-deictic linguistic elements, introductions, metatextual function

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Metatextual Role of Introductions to Ba Papers

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 36 - 47

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0005

Keywordsdeictic linguistic elements, non-deictic linguistic elements, introductions, metatextual function

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
deictic linguistic elements, non-deictic linguistic elements, introductions, metatextual function