Lexical Cohesion. Text-internal standard of textuality

Term Paper , 2015 , 21 Pages , Grade: 1

American Studies - Linguistics

Cohesion is, such as coherence, a text-internal standard of textuality . Therefore, it is not a user-centred but a text-centred notion. According to de Beaugrande/Dressler, cohesion “concerns the ways in which the components of the SURFACE TEXT, i.e. the actual words we hear or see, are mutually connected within a sequence” (1981, 3). Halliday/Hasan in turn underline that cohesion is based on semantic relations within a text (1976, 4). From these explanations we learn that cohesion is about how spoken or written words are linked to each other, and that cohesive ties are the devices that hold a text together. These cohesive ties can be distinguished on a grammatical as well as on a lexical level.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Cohesion
2.1. Lexical cohesion vs. grammatical cohesion

3. Types of lexical cohesion
3.1. Repetition
3.2. Sense relations
3.3. Paraphrase
3.4. Collocation

4. Conclusion

Bibliography

• College: University of Salzburg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik)
• Course: DELS 2
• Grade: 1
• Author: Elisabeth Lyons (Author)
• Publication Year: 2015
• Pages: 21
• Catalog Number: V496702
• ISBN (eBook): 9783346008138
• ISBN (Book): 9783346008145
• Language: English
• Tags: lexical, cohesion, lexical cohesion, english, linguistics, textuality