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This class will investigate linguistic resources used in Present Day English to construct texts. We will look at reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction, as well as lexical cohesion. This class will use Halliday and Hasan’s classic Cohesion in English (1976) as a springboard and move on to issues like multimodality that have acquired importance with the advent of computer-mediated communication. All lexico-grammatical phenomena will be discussed against the backdrop of their function or use in context. As an ancillary result, this class may also improve your writing skills in making you more aware of linguistic resources writers use to create cohesive texts. Assignments consist of an exam, a presentation and an abstract of a small research project. We will have on campus and online sessions. |
