The pronoun this as a cohesive encapsulator in engineering semi-popularization articles written in English

The purpose of this study is to analyse the use of the pronoun this as a cohesive encapsulator in a corpus of 130 engineering semi-popularization articles written in English. Three stages were followed to carry out the study: first analysis of the corpus, identification of cases to analyse, and quantitative and qualitative syntactic analysis of the textual segments encapsulated by the pronoun this. The results obtained in the first two stages of...