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Cohesive Devices F4F5
Cohesive Devices F4F5
The simple
solution! I went to the beach. There
were too many jellyfish. I
decided to stay. I had a good
time. I met some friends.
and
but
Wait! There’s
a different Life in Malaysia is challenging; therefore,
way. it can be very exciting.
Can you find a different way to link
those sentences?
Logical Devices
pronouns
• Achieved through the use of
determiners
Cataphoric Reference
• A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is
introduced later on in the text/speech.
• To understand the unit refered to by a cataphoric
reference you would need to look ahead in the
text/speech.
Don’t use a
Use a noun phase complete sentence
Connectors of cause and effect
• Therefore,
• Consequently,
• As a result, (of)
• Thus
• For this reason
• Because
• Because of
• In order to
• So that
Connectors of sequence
• First / In the first place
• Second / secondly
• Third etc.
• Next
• Afterwards / After that
• Eventually
• Finally
• Before that / beforehand
Other connectors
• Fortunately / Unfortunately
• Luckily
• Obviously
• For example,
• For instance,
• Such as
Ellipsis
• involves omitting unnecessary words to avoid repeating
what has just been said
• entails syntactic reduction, a form of inexplicitness
consisting in the unspoken, the unexpressed, but
understood.
• entails the omission or deletion of some items of the
surface text, which are recoverable in terms of relation
with the text itself.
• the use of ellipsis reduces the amount of time and effort
in both encoding and decoding, avoiding redundancy and
repetition, BUT only when it does not lead to ambiguity.
Some examples
• The actual language surrounding an utterance
or sentence
CONTEXTUAL ELLIPSIS
• Written texts:
Push [E]. (sign on a door)
Do not spray [E] on a naked flame. (on a spray can of air
freshener)
• Example
• Do you think she is married?
• - Yes, I think so.