Examples Of Lexical Cohesion
This paper tackles how cohesion can be effective to make the text more united. Both
cohesive devices; lexical and grammatical, have a powerful role in giving the text
texture. Lexical devices are repetition, antonyms, synonyms, and general words. On
the other hand, grammatical devices are reference, conjunction, and ellipsis. Both of
them provide the text harmony and meaning.
Lexical Cohesion Lexical cohesion occurs when two words are semantically related
to each other such as, repetition, synonyms, antonyms, general words, and
superordinate. Firstly, repetition occurs when one word is mentioned more than one
time throughout the text. To illustrate, the word and is repeated about 22 times in the
text , the word her is repeated around 15 times in paragraphs number 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11,
and 13, the morpheme mother is repeated 5 times in paragraphs number 1, 8, and 14,
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Secondly, conjunctions link between clauses and sentences. They signal the way the
writer wants the reader to relate the sentence to what have been said or what is going
to be said throughout the text. Conjunctions have many types such as, additive,
causal, adversative, and temporal. Additive conjunctions, also in paragraph number 6,
or in paragraph number 3, and in paragraphs number 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, are
used when the writer wants to add more information to his idea. Causal
conjunctions like, in order to in paragraph number 7, so in paragraph number 8, 9,
and 14, and because in paragraph number 14, are used to tell a reason or a result.
Adversative conjunctions like, but in paragraph 8, and although in paragraph number
11, are used to confirm opposite ideas.
Temporal conjunction like, since in paragraph number 9, is used to confirm