1 An analysis of cohesive devices in reading texts in English 11 / Hoàng Trà My PART 1: I TRODUCTIO 1. Rationale Among all skills which students need to master in English‚ reading is considered to be very important because it helps students to get materials for other skills. To learn reading well‚ it is necessary for students to comprehend sufficient language base‚ one of which is the cohesion in the text. Because of the importance of cohesion in comprehending a text‚ this small study on discourse
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2.1.1 Referential cohesion Anaphoric and cataphoric reference - Anaphoric reference: points the reader or listener backwards to a previously mentioned entity‚ process or state of affairs. Eg: The postman has just left. He forgot to get the signature. - Cataphoric reference: points the reader or listener forward to identify the elements to which the reference items refer further into the text. Eg: He can sense something really bad incoming. The storm is approaching. Personal‚ demonstrative and
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COHERENCE AND COHESION ========================================================== Abstract This paper discusses that a meaningful English text is always coherent. Also‚ the role of cohesion in a coherent English text is discussed in the light of literature. In order to further understand the significance of cohesion in discourse‚ we have analysed two English texts; a poem‚ ’Daffodils ’ by William Wordsworth and an advertisement from a UK website gumtree.co.uk. A report is then developed on the
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Instructor: Adriana Todea atodea@yahoo.com Office hours: Friday 2-3 p.m.‚ Alpha Centre room Introduction to Generative Grammar Course 9: Binding theory Outline1 WEEK 13 How do personal‚ possessive‚ reflexive pronouns and reciprocals acquire reference? (Johni and Peterj are top students) Johni thinks that hei‚j is intelligent. Johni thinks him*i‚j intelligent. The studentsk believed each otherk to be the best. This is not only a semantic issue‚ but also a syntactic issue … solved by Binding
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LANGUAGE IN INDIA Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Volume 12 : 5 May 2012 ISSN 1930-2940 Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai‚ Ph.D. Editors: B. Mallikarjun‚ Ph.D. Sam Mohanlal‚ Ph.D. B. A. Sharada‚ Ph.D. A. R. Fatihi‚ Ph.D. Lakhan Gusain‚ Ph.D. Jennifer Marie Bayer‚ Ph.D. S. M. Ravichandran‚ Ph.D. G. Baskaran‚ Ph.D. L. Ramamoorthy‚ Ph.D. Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai‚ M.A. Coherence and the Role of Cohesion in Coherent Texts Ambreen Shahriar Habibullah Pathan
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8. Deixis. Exercises Directions After you have read Unit 8 you should be able to tackle the following questions to test your understanding of the main ideas raised in the unit. Provide a definition. 1 You should understand these terms and concepts from this unit: * Deictic words. – Is the word which takes some element of its meaning from the context. * (Deictics) context. - * Reported speech. – Used to communicate something that someone said. 2 What parts of speech can function
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Carried‚ the author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ wants to emphasize different aspects of what the men carried. O’Brien provides different subjects throughout the work‚ with all having significance to the story. The items build on one another with the author’s use of anaphoras and examples‚ both general and specific‚ which stress the importance of what the men truly carried. Throughout the story‚ O’Brien uses several subjects that all have significance to the story. With each subject change‚ there is a change in emotion
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Friday‚ September 20‚ 2012 Anaphora in Modern Literature Repetition in literature is often used as more than just a meaningless echo in the writer’s words. With its many different forms (some more subtle than others)‚ the author can quite often sway the tone and mood of their work dramatically without the average reader noticing the effect while using this literary device. Some of these forms stress the repetition of initial or internal consonants and vowel sounds. Anaphora‚ however‚ is a much more
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already painted for them. They’re not going with round-trip tickets. They’re going with one way tickets. And if they don’t want that non-nonviolent army going down there‚ tell them to bring the filibuster to a halt.” This paragraph is an example of and anaphora. Each sentence begins “they’re not.” Having this repetition shows them that things aren’t even close to how they were before. A lot of the stuff they had or were able to do before is no longer plausible. This can motivate the audience to change
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Corrina Quesada October 6‚ 2014 Period 5 JFK Inaugural Speech Essay Patriotic yet hopeful‚ John F. Kennedy urges the American citizens to act as a community with the rest of the world. Anaphora and abstract words aid him in highlighting his hopes for the pursuit of community in the world. Hortative and imperative sentences were also strongly delivered in his speech to justify what the citizens of America should be doing to make these hopes become a reality. With these devices‚ the pursuit of
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