Cohesion in literary and scientific texts Kerbela university faculty of education department of english | ||
| Al-Bahith Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 17, October 2016, Pages 189-201 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| ; Azhar Hassan Salumee | ||
| Abstract | ||
| refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that defines it as a text. The detection of these meaning relations is important to its interpretation. These relations are achieved by the use of cohesive devices. This means that the presence or absence of these devices in a text helps to make a text coherent or incoherent respectively. This paper is a statistic study of two types of cohesion : the grammatical cohesion and lexical one in selected scientific and literary texts. Three scientific essays as well as three literary ones have been chosen for the purpose of analysis. The six essays are written by different British writers and most of them are taken from the Internet. The study aims at presenting data verifying the assumption that both lexical and grammatical cohesive devices are more frequent in use in scientific texts than those occurred in literary ones. Also, some categories in each type are more widely used than others such as conjunctions and reiteration in both scientific and literary texts. The study shows that such conclusions can be traced back to the writer's intention to use rather simple, comparative, and descriptive language in expressing rather complex topics presented in scientific texts. That is to say, the use of indirect and complex language makes the reader's task more difficult. Moreover, the frequent categories of each one help the writer elaborate, illustrate, compare, and even add new information and ideas to his/her reader. The paper starts with an introduction that acquaints the reader with the concept of cohesion and its two types : the grammatical and lexical cohesion. Then, an analysis and a statistic study of six essays are carried out that reflect the frequency of occurrence of both types of cohesion in these texts. Three scientific essays as well as three literary ones have been chosen for the purpose of analysis. The study ends with some conclusions resulted through the | ||
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