Cohesion refers to semantic relations that give a text its unity and allow elements in a text to be interpreted based on other elements. There are five main cohesive devices that create texture in a text: reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. These devices link different parts of a text together through grammatical and lexical ties. Cohesion is analyzed by examining the patterns of ties within a text, and plays an important role in forming the overall structure and meaning of a text through linking elements semantically rather than structurally.
Under the guidance of the theory of theme and rheme as well as thematic progression patterns, two significant components in Systemic Functional Linguistics, this paper discusses the thematic structure and thematic progression patterns of the Queen’s national speech “We will meet again!” which was delivered on April 5, 2020, when both England and the rest of the world were in the throes of the growing pandemic. With the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods, their distributions and the reasons are explored to figure out the thematic features, the effects, or the functions that have been achieved in Queen’s speech.
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SEMANTICS (Referring Expressions)
A Referring Expression is any expression used in an utterance to refer to something or someone (or a clearly delimited collection of things or people),
i.e. used with a particular referent in mind.
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References
Webb, S. (2007). Learning word pairs and glossed sentences: The effects of a single context on vocabulary knowledge. Language Teaching Research, 11, 63-81.
http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html
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SEMANTICS (Referring Expressions)
A Referring Expression is any expression used in an utterance to refer to something or someone (or a clearly delimited collection of things or people),
i.e. used with a particular referent in mind.
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Mufarika
Nurmalasari
Putri Aliya Rahma
Sulistyawati
Mawar Emilia Suhendar
Qori Aliarahmi
Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf Tangerang
References
Webb, S. (2007). Learning word pairs and glossed sentences: The effects of a single context on vocabulary knowledge. Language Teaching Research, 11, 63-81.
http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html
This slides explain the kinds of word-formation processes in English Morphology. This also a PPT version of a pdf-slideshare "A Concise Companion of Word-formation". Check its pdf for detail discussions
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Cohesion In English Wasee
1. 1
Cohesion in English
The various kinds of cohesion had been out lined by MAK Halliday in his writings on stylistics
and the concept was developed by Ruqayia Hasan in her University of Edinburgh doctoral thesis.
Cohesive relations are relations between two or more elements in a text that are
independent of the structure: for example between a personal pronoun and an antecedent proper
name, such as John ….he. A semantic relation of this kind may be set up either within a sentence
with the consequence that when it crosses a sentence boundary it has the effect of making the
two sentences cohere with one another.
The major function of cohesion is text formation. As defined: text is a unified whole of
linguistic items, this unity of text as a semantic whole is source for the concept of cohesion.
So first we will explore the concept of text.
Text
Text in linguistics refers to any passage spoken written of whatever length that forms a unified
whole. A reader can easily identify whether the passage he is reading is a text or otherwise a
collection of unrelated sentences. A text may be: spoken, written, prose, verse, dialogue,
monologue, single proverb, a single cry for help or all day discussion on a committee. A text is a
unit of language in use. A grammatical unit that is larger than a sentence. A text is not something
that is like a sentence only bigger or larger. It is misleading. Rather text can be best defined as a
semantic unit; a unit not of form but of meaning. If it is semantic unit, we will not expect to find
it in structure of a sentence as a grammatical unit as phrase, clause etc.
So text is not consist of sentence but it is realized by sentence or encoded in sentences.
There are certain objective factors involved that constitute a text.
Constituents of Text
Texture:
Texture is that feature of text which made it a unified whole.
According to ‘The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P.H. Mathews’ cohesion and
coherence are sources which create texture. Crystal adds ‘informativeness’ to cohesion and
coherence.
Example:
Wash and core six cooking apples. Put them into a fireproof dish.
Here them reference back to six cooking apples to create cohesion between the two
sentences. Here we make a presupposition about the relationship between them and six cooking
apples but it is not enough only to make a presupposition rather that presupposition must be
satisfied to create texture as shown in the example . These two items are co referential and this
coreferentiality creates texture.
Here are five cohesive devices to createtexture:
(i) Reference
(ii) Substitution
(iii) Ellipses
(iv) Conjunction
(v) Lexical Cohesion
Ties:
The term refers to a single instance of cohesion.
Example:
2. 2
Wash and core six cooking apples. Put them into a fireproof dish.
Them and six cooking apples show reference as tie.
If we take the Example:
Wash and core six cooking apples. Put the apples into a fireproof dish.
Here are two ties
(i) Reference
(ii) Repetition
Cohesive analysis of text is made in terms of tie for a systematic account of its patterns which
are a source for texture. Onward we will use the term ‘cohesive tie’ in place of ‘tie’.
Here are five different kinds of cohesive ties that are also called cohesive devices
:
(i) Reference
(ii) Substitution
(iii) Ellipses
(iv) Conjunction
(v) Lexical cohesion
MAKH and RH have based their model of cohesion on these cohesive ties. A detailed review is
given here in the proceeding discussion.
Cohesion
‘The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P.H. Mathews (1997)’ defines
cohesion in term of syntactic unit (sentence).
‘ A Dictionary Of Linguistics And Phonetics by David Crystal (1997)’ defines cohesion
in terms of a grammatical unit (words)
MAKH and RH (1976) argued that the concept of cohesion is semantic one. For them it
refers to relation of meaning that:
exists with in text
gives the text texture
defines the text as text
This relation of meaning between the elements gives the reader presupposition. This is another
way of approaching the notion of cohesion that presupposing and the presupposed give us a
presupposition at semantic level as a relation of meaning: The one element presupposes the other
i.e. the one element cannot be decoded without the presupposed.
Example:
Time flies
You can’t; they fly too quickly.
You can’t (Ellipses)
They (Reference)
Fly (Lexical Cohesion)
Types OF Cohesion
Language is multiple coding system comprising three levels of coding
Meaning The semantic system
Wording The lexicogrammatical system
(grammar an vocabulary)
Sounding/writing The phonological and orthographical system
3. 3
Cohesive relation fit into the overall pattern of language. Cohesion is expressed partly through
vocabulary and partly throu grammar.
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:
1. Grammatical Cohesion
(i) Reference
(ii) Substitution
(iii) Ellipses
2. Lexical Cohesion
The distinction between grammatical cohesion and Lexical cohesion is a matter of degree
and MAHK RH suggested not to go in the depth of these overlapping areas and that conjunction
is on the border line of the two types mainly it is grammatical but with the lexical component so
we cannot clearly distinguish between the two types.
Cohesion and the Linguistics Structure
Texture and Structure
Structure is one mean of expressing texture. Text consists of one sentence are fairly rare
but they can be single sentences as well for Example:
No smoking
Wonder never cease
But most of the text extends beyond the confines of single sentences so structure is
important in a text as structural units such as phrase, clause and sentence which express the unity
of text. But our use of term Cohesion refers especially to the non structural text forming relation.
They are semantic relations and the text is a semantic unit.
Cohesion With in the Text
Since cohesive relation is not concerned with structure, they may be found just as well
with in the sentence as between sentences cohesive relation are beyond the sentences boundaries.
Cohesion is semantic relation between one element in the text and some other element that is
crucial for its interpretation. This other element must also be found with in the text. Cohesion
refers to the range of possibilities that exist for linking something with what has gone before.
The Place of Cohesion in the Linguistics System
Halliday (1985) has described three major functional semantic components:
(i) The Ideational
(ii) The Interpersonal
(iii) The Textual
Table: the place of cohesion in the description of English functional components of
semantic system
Ideational Interpersonal Textual
Experiential Logical Structural Non-structural
By Rank: All Ranks: By Ranks By Rank Cross-Rank
Clause: Practice and Clause: Clause: Information
4. 4
Transitivity hypotactic Mood, modality theme Unit: Cohesion
relations Information
Verbal Group: (condition, Verbal Group: Verbal Group: distribution, Reference
Tense addition, person voice Information Substitution
report) focus Ellipses
Nominal Group: Nominal Group: Nominal Group: Conjunction
Epithesis attitude deixis Lexical cohesion
Adverbial Group: Adverbial Adverbial Group:
circmstance Group: conjunction
comment
Conclusion:
Cohesion is a part of text forming component in the linguistics system. It links together
the elements that are structurally unrelated through the dependence of one on the other for its
interpretation. Without cohesion the semantic system cannot be effectively activated at all.
Reference
There are certain items in any language which cannot be interpreted semantically in their own
right rather they make reference to something else within the text for their interpretation.
Here is an example of reference:
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rai
n
He stepped in puddle right up to his middle
And never went there again
Here in the above example:
He refers back to Doctor Foster
There refers back to Gloucester
He and there show that information about them is retrieved elsewhere within the text. It
characterizes a particular type of cohesion which is called reference. The relationship of
reference is on semantic level. The reference items must not match the grammatical item it refers
to. What must match or the semantic properties of reference item in relation to the items it refers
to.
Reference can be sub-categorize as follow
Reference
Exophora Endophora
Anaphora Cataphora
Exophora
It indicates situational references. Anaphora signals that reference must be made to the context of
situation. It is outside the text so it is called anaphoric reference.
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Example;
For he’s a jolly good fellow and so say all of us.
Here text is not indicating who he is?
He can be recognized by the situation in which expression is used. They are not source of
cohesion because there presupposition cannot be resolved within the text rather the
presupposition is found outside the text.
Endophora
It is a general name for reference within the text. This reference can be of two types.
(i) Anaphora: Reference back
(ii) Cataphora: Reference forward
Example:
Child: why does that one come out?
Parent: that what
Child: that one.
Parent: that one what?
Child: that lever there that you push to let the water out.
That one that lever (cataphoric reference)
That lever that one (anaphoric reference)
Types of reference
There are three types of reference
(i) Personal Reference
(ii) Demonstrative Reference
(iii) Comparative Reference
It is better first explain the structure of nominal group then proceed towards three types
of Reference. It is because we will analyze nominal group for cohesive analysis of Reference.
Nominal Group
The logical structure of the nominal group (noun phrase) is that it consists of head with
optional modifier the modifying elements include some which precede the head and some which
follow it. They can be referred as Pre modifier and Post modifier respectively.
Example
The two high stone wall along the roadside.
Wall ------------ Head
The two high stone ------------ Pre modifier
Along the roadside ------------ Post modifier
The modifier can be further subcategorized as:
(i) Deictic
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(ii) Numerative
(iii) Epithet
(iv) Classifier
(v) Qualifier
(vi) Thing
Example
Their famous old red wine.
Deictic Deictic epithet classifier thing
Determiner adjective adjective adjective noun
1. Personal Reference
It is a reference by means of function into a speech situation through the category of the
person in the form of personal pronouns. The category of persons includes the three classes of
personal pronouns. The category of person includes the three classes of personal pronouns.
During the communication process the speech roles are assigned to the participants through the
person system as:
Speaker
Addressee
It/one are used as a generalized form for other items
The following table shows the system of person for personal reference.
Table: Personal Reference
Semantic category Existential Possessive
Grammatical function Head Modifier
Class Noun (pronoun) Determiner
Person:
speaker (only) I me mine my
addressee (s), with/without
other person(s) you yours yours
speaker and other person we us ours our
other person, male he him his his
other person, female she her hers her
other persons, objects they them theirs their
object; passage of text it [its] its
generalized person one one’s
Example
If the buyer wants to look the condition of the property, he has to have another survey.
One carried out on his own behalf.
Here in the above example the use of personal pronouns is a source of personal reference
Buyer he his
Survey one
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If possessive pronouns are used, they give two more notions other than Speaker and Addressee.
They are that of Possessor and Possessed as I the following example
That new house is John’s. I didn’t know it was his
Possessor John
Possessed house shown by the use of his and ‘s
Demonstrative Reference
It is essentially a form of verbal pointing. The speaker identifies or points pout the
referent by locating it on scale of proximity. The system of demonstrative pronoun is given in the
following table.
Table: Demonstrative Reference
Semantic Selective Non-selective
category
Grammatical Modifier Adjunct Modifier
category
determiner adverb determiner
this these here [now]
that those there then
the
Class
Proximity:
near
far
neutral
Examples
]
Leave that there and come here.
Where do you come from?
I like the lions and I like the polar bears. These are my favorites and those are my favorites too.
Comparative Reference
Here two types of comparison are given:
(i) General Comparison
(ii) Particular Comparison
(i) General Comparison
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Here things compared show likeness or unlikeness without considering any particular
property. Likeness or unlikeness is referential property as something is can be like something
else.
Example
It’s the same cat as the one we saw yesterday.
Its different cat from the one we saw yesterday
(ii)Particular Comparison
Here comparison is made on the scale of quantity or quality it is a matter of degree compare
things on this scale. In other words we can say it expresses the comparability between things.
Example
Take some more tea
We are demanding higher living standard.
There are twice as many people there as the last time.
Note: one in the following uses is not uses as cohesive device
Table: Comparative reference
Grammatical function Modifier Submodifier /adjuncts
Deictic /epithet
(see below)
Class
Adjectives Adverb
General comparison:
Identity same identical equal identically
general similarity similar additional similarly likewise
so such
difference (ie non-identity other different else differently otherwise
or similarity)
Particular comparison: better, more etc so more less equally
[comparative adjectives and
quantifiers]