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Coherence and Cohesion
Coherence:
It implies the way in which concepts and relations underlying the text are accessible and relevant. In other words how the meaning withing the text is interconected and develop through causality, enablement, reason, purpose and time.
Cohesion:
It is determined by grammatical dependencies among the textual components which cannot be rearranged without causing ambiguities.
Cohesive devices
Ellipsis
It is omission of information within the text, in other words, the fact of words being left out of a sentence, but the sentence can still be understood.
Example:
She broke the table and (verb missing) the desk
Reference
It implies referencing to a term that is part of the text.
Example:
She is my sister, and this is her backpack
Lexical Cohesion
It is the one that deals with the meaning in the text, and also with word classes.
Example:
Synonym of House: home, residence and dwelling
Parallelism
It happens when the sentence follows patterns
Example:
I like running, cycling and walking
Substitution
It happens when a word is replaced for another word of the same function.
Example:
There are many books here. which ones are yours?
Conjunctions
They are the ones that relates in meaning one sentence to another and it specifies the way in which two sentences are connected.
Example:
No one wants to be rejected, and to prevent rejection we change our behaviour often.
Recurrence
It is the repetition of elements or patterns.
example:
He met very attractive girl. The girl didn’t seem to pay any attention to him
Proforms
It is basically the use of pronouns.
Example:
John is doing business, because he is very clever
Paraphrase
It implies repeting content with different words
Example:
His mother collude with his uncle
His mother and uncle are conspiring
Text analysis
In the following project the article “Very high inequality” in Chilean Society Breeds Resentment by Linn Helene Loken was analyzed according to every cohesive device.
Personal reflection
This unit helps us to develop the capacity to find cohesive devices in a text which was very useful, because we could review our knowledge in term of lexis which is something that is going to be part of our knowledge as future teachers in every moment of our classes.