Instituto Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Prácticas discursivas de la comunicación escrita II

Docente: Patricia E. Martin
2º año

Some note son lexical cohesion

Lexical cohesion refers to the exact repetition of words and the role played by certain basic semantic
relations between words in creating textuality, that property of text which distinguishes it from a random
sequence off unconnected sentences.

Reiteration means either restating an item in a later part of the discourse by direct repetition or else
reasserting its meaning by exploiting lexical relations.

Lexical relations are stable semantic relationships that exist between words and which are the basis of
descriptions given in dictionaries. Eg: rose/flower related by hyponymy.

Lexical cohesion
reiteration Collocation
repetition antonymy
Synonymy Complimentary relationships
Eg. A: Where is your watch?
B: I went to the pawn shop.
parallelism Ordered series
Eg. Enumeration
Hyponymy Lexical chains
Flower (hyperonyme) rose (hyponyme) Eg. Football (ball, team, whistle, etc.)

Which cohesive devices can you find in the following extracts?

1) The meeting commenced at 6:30. But from the moment it began, it was clear that all was not well.
2) There was a fine, old rocking chair that his father used to sit in, a desk where he wrote letters and a
dark, imposing bookcase. Now all this furniture was to be sold, and with it his own past.