Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 285):
Collectively, these waves are then tracked using the definite article the, possessive pronoun their, and the pronouns they and it (strangely for the latter, since there is more than one wave involved at this stage of the text). In addition there are two examples of indirect reference (or bridging), which make use of meronymy to treat the boiling surf and the water as if already given (in relation to the waves).
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[1] To be clear, in SFL Theory, what the authors describe as the writer "tracking" the waves is the writer using various types of cohesive anaphoric reference:
- personal (it, their, they, it)
- comparative (another, another, yet more)
- demonstrative (the)
[2] To be clear, 'bridging' (Martin 1992) confuses two distinct types of textual cohesion: reference and lexical cohesion. Evidence here.
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