Abstract 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 analysis revealed that this had a high frequency in the corpus of engineering semi-popularization articles, the majority of the cases being used as encapsulating cohesive pronouns in sentence-initial position. The syntactic analysis of the encapsulated segments showed that the sentence was the most frequent structure condensed by the demonstrative pronoun this. The second most frequent syntactic category was the clause. Taken together, these findings provide evidence for the description and understanding of engineering semi-popularization articles in English and shed light on the cohesive phenomenon of encapsulation to inform pedagogic practices in engineering undergraduate ESP reading courses.

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代词 this as a cohesive encapsulator in 用英文写的工程半通俗文章

摘要 本研究的目的是分析在 130 篇用英语撰写的工程半通俗文章的语料库中，代词 this 作为内聚封装器的使用情况。遵循三个阶段进行研究：首先分析语料库，确定要分析的案例，以及对代词 this 封装的文本片段进行定量和定性句法分析。前两个阶段的分析结果表明，这在工程半通俗文章的语料库中出现的频率很高，大多数情况下被用作句首位置的封装衔接代词。对封装段的句法分析表明，该句子是由指示代词 this 浓缩的最常见的结构。第二个最常见的句法类别是子句。总之，这些发现为描述和理解英语工程半通俗文章提供了证据，并阐明了封装的内聚现象，为工程本科 ESP 阅读课程的教学实践提供信息。