Cohesion in academic writing Flashcards
to do with how actual texts are held together lexically and grammatically
Cohesion
flow of sentences and paragraphs from one to another. It involves the tying together of old information and new
Cohesion
Deals with the overall quality of a work on a macro level
Cohesion
Two strategies for achieving cohesion
Grammatical Cohesion and Lexical Cohesion
involves the use of cohesive devices such as pronouns, conjunctions, and ellipsis to link sentences together. These devices serve to maintain continuity and coherence within the text (Halliday & Hasan, 1976).
Grammatical Cohesion
relies on the semantic relationships between words and phrases to establish connections between sentences or paragraphs
Lexical Cohesion
This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “I went to the store and bought some fruit. The apples were fresh, but the bananas were overripe. I returned them.” ____ refers back to bananas
Reference ; them
This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “She brought her laptop to the meeting, but he forgot his.” his refers to _____
Substitution; laptop
This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “She can speak French; he, Spanish.” what verb is committed in the second sentence?
Ellipsis; can speak
Two types of conjunctions
Temporal conjunctions and Casual Conjunctions
These: As, before, meanwhile, are what example of conjunctions
Temporal Conjunctions
These type of conjunctions link events or actions in time
Temporal conjunctions
These types of conjunctions indicate a cause-effect relationship that gives the reason or why
Casual conjunctions
These types of conjunctions are used: because, consequently, due
Casual conjunctions
5 types of lexical cohesion
Repetition
Synonymy
Hypnonymy/hypernymy
Meronymy/ Holonymy
Collocation
Using the same word over again, but not restricted to the same morphological form:
Repetition
Demonstrates how some words can be used interchangeably to convey similar meanings in different contexts
Synonymy
refer to the super- and subordinate relationships between words.
Hyponymy/ Hypernymy
Words in the superordinate level
Hypernyms
words in the subordinate level
Hyponyms
Hyponymy / hypernymy: Animals
Hypernym
Hyponymy/ hypernymy: dogs
hyponymy
a semantic relation between denoting a part and denoting a whole.
Meronymy and holonymy
Meronymy/ holonymy: Head
Holonymy
Meronymy/ holonymy: Eyes and faces
Meronymy
Depends upon the tendency of some words to co-occur in texts.
Collocation
what lexical cohesion: The noun bicycle could more likely occur with the verb to ride then any random verb.
Collocation