The Use of Articles in Popular Scientific Texts

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals with the distribution of determiners in texts coming under popular scientific style. The theoretical part of the thesis offers the information about the typical features of the popular science. The next part outlines the general conception of nouns - their classification and description of a noun phrase, and determination from the point of various references. The practical part consists of the characterization of chosen texts and the analysis of articles occuring in these particular texts. The articles were analyzed on the basis of their referential function. At the end of the analytical part, there is a summarizing table indicating the representation of particular types of articles in the text.