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This class will investigate linguistic resources used in Present Day English to construct texts. We will look at reference as a means of connecting sentences, for instance with the help of pronouns. Other ties we will treat include 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 lexicogrammatical phenomena will be discussed against the backdrop of their function or use in context. Students will work on their own choice of text (excluding literary texts) and describe its most characteristic cohesive ties and the functions they fulfil in that genre. There will also be an exam at the end of the term. 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. |
