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The following article discusses nominal unfaithful encapsulation on a corpus of Spanish conference presentations and the corresponding Proceedings articles in Linguistics (102 903 words). A nominal unfaithful encapsulator is a noun which sums up the content of a predicative portion [...]

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Academic discourse is characterized by an abundance of abstract nouns such as analysis, research, process, concept, approach or role. These nouns are considered cohesive devices since their full content is determined by referring to their context and they have received numerous denominations [...]

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This article presents a contrastive analysis of the ways in which the first person markers as a discoursive organizer are manifested in academic texts. The corpus consists of academic texts published between 1989-2001 in reviews with a high level of specialization in three fields [...]