Existential There

In Jessica Knoll’s article Girls in the Gentlemen’s Club, I was able to identify a few appearances of existential there. According to Huckin and Pesante, “Existential-there constructions serve a number of useful purposes, such as asserting existence, presenting new information, introducing topics, and summarizing (376).” The article discusses the popularity of more females going to strip clubs. The author of the article used it twice in one sentence to assert existence. The sentence includes a noun phrase that follows the there usage. The sample below follows a single article entity and it shows how the author is stating there are more woman than men in these types of places. As we see in example (1):
(1) A swanky venue with a celebrity following (Diddy and Lil Wayne, to name a few), says that on any given night, there are noticeable more women in the crowd than there are men.
The first utterance is used followed by a noun and a preposition and then used once again by another noun forming two entities. The author could of easily stated there were less men in general but contrasted it with the number of females. Next, the author uses there to introduce a new topic and introduce a study, Example (2):
(2) To the Factory, a funky BYOB venue…..And while there are no hard numbers to illustrate how popular these clubs have gotten among woman….
The author is switching topics from the begging of the article and is using there to present new information. Example 2 illustrates the new given data that has not been informed in previous sentences making it more recent information. ‘The information-marking function of there sentences can be fully understood only in the context of several facts about the English language (380).” The article by Huckin and Pesante stated that is was uncommon for certain readers or a particular genre to really know everything that was put in certain articles unless you belonged to that particular group. For example, the Factory venue was