Formal-Cohesion and Coherence Flashcards
Cohesion Language
provides links
ties together
provides reference
connects lexemes/phrases
links parts
condenses the text to avoid unnecessary repetion
draws connections
Features
-Phonological Patterning (alliteration, assonance, consonance)
-Conjunctions
-Hyponymy
-Collocation
-Subject specific lexis
-Antonymy
-Synonymy
-Ellipsis
-Syntactic Patterning (antithesis, parallelism and listing)
-Repetition
-Substitution
-Deictics
-Information Flow (clefting, front/ end focus, passive voice)
Coherence Language
-understanding and comprehension of a discourse
-assists in the navigation of text, provides sense of consistency THROUGHOUT the text, supports register, supports consistency of domain, directs reader
Features (FLICCc)
-Formating and Discourse Features (headings, subheadings, bolding, paranthesis )
Layout/ formatting (dot points, paragraphing)
-Logical Order
-Inference
-Consistency of tense
-Consistency of semantic field
-Consistency of person
-Conventions