This document discusses cohesive devices, which are linguistic elements like words, phrases, and structures that link different parts of a text together to help the text form a unified whole and improve comprehension. Cohesive devices serve important functions like showing logical relationships, extending content, and achieving text unity and meaningfulness. Examples of different types of cohesive devices are provided, including reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, and lexical cohesion.

1. COHESIVE DEVICES
Using Appropriate Cohesive Devices

2. COMMUNICATION
• LANGUAGE IS USED TO COMMUNICATE
WITH EACH OTHER AND TO REPRESENT
THEIR IDEAS OR THOUGHTS
• CAN BE IN FORM OF WRITTEN AS WELL
AS SPOKEN DISCOURSE
• REASON WHY WE USE ONE OR MORE
WORD OR/AND MORE THAN ONE
SENTENCE
• SENTENCES CAN BE USED AS A UNIFIED
WHOLE OR SEPARATE UNRELATED
SENTENCES
• SO, WE PRODUCED LONG TEXTS

3. COHESIVE DEVICES
•IS A DEVICE THAT HOLDS
DIFFERENT PARTS OF A
THING TOGETHER
•SINGLE WORDS OR
PHRASES THAT HOLDS AND
HANG DIFFERENT PARTS OF
A TEXTS
•BASICALLY, TOOLS FOR
COHESION

4. FUNCTION
• MAJOR FUNCTION OF COHESION IS
TEXT FORMATION
• HELPS ACHIEVING UNITY OF THE
TEXT AS A SEMANTIC WHOLE
• A TEXT MUST BE MEANINGFUL – A
TEXT THAT IS NOT COHESIVE IS
NOT MEANINGFUL
• SHOWS THE LOGICAL
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS
• EXTEND CONTENT
• IMPROVES READING SKILLS AND
COMPREHENSION SKILLS

5. IMPORTANCE
•SEMANTIC SYSTEM CANNOT BE EFFECTIVELY ACTIVATED AT ALL
•LINKS TOGETHER STRUCTURALLY UNRELATED ELEMENTS
MEANING OF A WORD, PHRASE,
SENTENCE OR A TEXT

6. EXAMPLES

9. TYPES OF
COHESIVE
DEVICES
REFERENCE
SUBSTITUTION
ELLIPSIS
CONJUNCTIONS
LEXICAL ITEMS

10. REFERENCE

11. EXAMPLE

14. SUBSTITUTION

16. ELIPSIS

18. CONJUNCTION

19. LEXICAL COHESION