Boundaries of Nominal Encapsulation

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The aim of this article is to analyse one of the textual cohesion mechanisms called nominal encapsulation, which consists in synthesising a text fragment by means of nominal and pronominal measures jointly defined as encapsulators. Our study focuses on delimiting the range of the phenomenon in question at three different levels: lexical, textual, and conceptual. First, we propose to re-analyse central and peripheral features of nominal elements whose purpose is to condense and recategorise the predicative content. Given that the condensed segments can be of different size and complexity, we attempt to establish their textual boundaries and the criteria based on which the encapsulated sequences may vary in length. Finally, we describe the conceptual scope of the phenomenon by referring to its lack of semantic autonomy and to the phenomenon of discursive memory, requiring factual reconstruction by the reader.

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nominal encapsulation, general nouns, discursive labels, lexical cohesion, specialised languages, discursive memory



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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