Abstract
This paper presents some of the results of a pragmatic and comparative (English-German) investigation into text commenting devices - speech actions by which writers comment explicitly on the textual arrangement they have adopted - in a corpus of academic articles chosen from a variety of disciplines. Our main objectives have been to clarify the concept of text commenting speech action, and the role of such speech actions in text organisation, as well as to compare their occurrence and linguistic realisation in our corpus texts. The linguistic differences proved to be of particular significance, as they seem to reflect different ways in which text structure is conceptualised in both language communities.
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