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Understanding Discourse and Cohesion

This text appears to be from an academic publication or textbook. Features that indicate this include: - The use of headings and subheadings to organize information - Formal, explanatory tone without personal opinions or narratives - Focus on explaining linguistic concepts like discourse, cohesion, and lexical cohesion The overall purpose is to inform and teach about these linguistic concepts. Some stylistic features include: - Bullet points and numbering to break up information - Italics and bolding for emphasis and definitions - Diagrams and visual representations to supplement explanations - Formal academic language without contractions or casual language So in summary, this text is presenting information about discourse and cohesion in an academic/textbook style intended to

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Understanding Discourse and Cohesion

This text appears to be from an academic publication or textbook. Features that indicate this include: - The use of headings and subheadings to organize information - Formal, explanatory tone without personal opinions or narratives - Focus on explaining linguistic concepts like discourse, cohesion, and lexical cohesion The overall purpose is to inform and teach about these linguistic concepts. Some stylistic features include: - Bullet points and numbering to break up information - Italics and bolding for emphasis and definitions - Diagrams and visual representations to supplement explanations - Formal academic language without contractions or casual language So in summary, this text is presenting information about discourse and cohesion in an academic/textbook style intended to

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Discourse Management

What is Discourse?

• Discourse is one of the four systems of language, the others


being vocabulary, grammar and phonology.
• Discourse can be defined as any piece of extended (more than
one sentence) language, written or spoken, that has unity
and meaning and purpose.
“The clarity of the
text”
When a text makes
Coherenc sense through the
suitable organization
e of its context

Cohesion
Use of linguistic devices to
join sentences together,
including conjunctions,
reference words,
substitution and lexical
devices such as repetition of
words, collocations and
According to Halliday and Hasan to
create cohesion in a text…
There are six main ways:
Reference: this, his, which, whose
Substitution: the ones, the same
Ellipsis: missing words out
Lexical Chains: words on the same topic
Cohesive nouns: nouns that summarise what came before or what is to
follow
Conjunctions: because, so, finally
Underline the examples
using the right color…
•
The student sighed as she handed in the assignment, at last it was finished.
This was the most difficult piece of writing which she had been set, but she
had completed it. The ‘magnum opus’ was 10,000 words long. This project,
though not quite a dissertation, was still the longest piece of academic
writing she had ever written. She had thought she would never complete it
and it had taken all her strength to do so.
•
 
•
Her achievement made her elated, but had left her exhausted. When she
had read the title of the task, she knew it was not going to be just another
essay, not an easy one at all. Finally, the completed work lay on the
counter of the reception [and was] beautifully bound. She would sleep easy
at night, [and she would be] no longer troubled by thoughts of its accusing
blank pages - the nightmare was over!
•
 
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•
The student sighed as she handed in the assignment, at last it was finished.
This was the most difficult piece of writing which she had been set, but she
had completed it. The ‘magnum opus’ was 10,000 words long. This project,
though not quite a dissertation, was still the longest piece of academic
writing she had ever written. She had thought she would never complete it
and it had taken all her strength to do so.
•
 
•
Her achievement made her elated, but had left her exhausted. When she
had read the title of the task, she knew it was not going to be just another
essay, not an easy one at all. Finally, the completed work lay on the
counter of the reception [and was] beautifully bound. She would sleep easy
at night, [and she would be] no longer troubled by thoughts of its accusing
blank pages - the nightmare was over!
•
 
Lexical Cohesion

Repetition
Synonymy
Collocation

According to Halliday and Hasan


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