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Argentina
The writer of an academic article does not produce its text alone and without any restrictions, but as part of certain discursive communities. These restrictions impact on how knowledge is constructed and communicated. The use of certain reference methods (and not others) responds to discursive choices conditioned by the various scientific disciplines. This article addresses the nominalizing anaphora as a mechanism of lexical cohesion and, most importantly, as a grammatical metaphor (Halliday, 1994).It is explained how grammatical metaphors work as discursive objects construction mechanisms. A corpus composed of 30 scientific articles corresponding to different disciplines is analyzed comparatively. These articles fall into three series: Series A, Philosophy articles; series B, Chemistry articles; and series C; Biology articles. Through a mixed method analysis (qualitative and quantitative), referential anaphoric options that are manifested in these writings are classified and systematized. The results show that in the writing of the series A articles, the enunciators show a greater tendency to use complex procedures to reify backgrounds, while in series B and C the anaphoric procedures are used primarily to recover backgrounds already reified.
