Cohesion Flashcards
E.G. “Safe and sound”
Idioms (expressions that don’t have literal meaning)
and cliches (v. common & overused phrases=little meaning).
Collocations
What are collocations
Words associated within phrases.
Often well known / predictable
What is substitution?
Replacement of a word or phrase with a filler to avoid repetition
Define cohesion
The action or fact of forming a united whole
“Linguistic glue”
Superordinates
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.
Hyponyms are subdivisions of the general categorisation. True or false?
True
Give an example of a hyponym
Dog - Alsatian, poodle, spaniel.
Which theorists state that there are two types of cohesion?
Halliday and Hasan 1976
What are the two different types of cohesion that H&H 1976 state there are?
Grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion
H&H classify grammatical cohesion into 4 major classes…
- Reference
- Substitution
- Ellipsis
- Conjunction
Conjunctions =
Connect clauses