Cohesion Flashcards

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E.G. “Safe and sound”

Idioms (expressions that don’t have literal meaning)

and cliches (v. common & overused phrases=little meaning).

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Collocations

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What are collocations

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Words associated within phrases.

Often well known / predictable

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What is substitution?

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Replacement of a word or phrase with a filler to avoid repetition

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Define cohesion

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The action or fact of forming a united whole

“Linguistic glue”

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Superordinates

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A word whose meaning includes the meaning of one or more other words.

Something that represents a superior order or category within a system of classification.

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Hyponyms are subdivisions of the general categorisation. True or false?

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True

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Give an example of a hyponym

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Dog - Alsatian, poodle, spaniel.

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Which theorists state that there are two types of cohesion?

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Halliday and Hasan 1976

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What are the two different types of cohesion that H&H 1976 state there are?

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Grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion

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H&H classify grammatical cohesion into 4 major classes…

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  1. Reference
  2. Substitution
  3. Ellipsis
  4. Conjunction
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Conjunctions =

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Connect clauses

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