Lecture 11 lexical cohesion 英语词汇学 教学教案.pptVIP

I remembered grandpa’s nightly noisy journeys that rocked the bed and shook the walls. (shake) We rattled down into River street, and the tailor still rang his bell and a dog ran, squealing, in front of his wheels. ( produce noise) Henry‘s bought himself a new Jaguar. He practically lives in the car. meronymy It refers to the reoccurrence of lexical items which are in a part-whole relation with each other MERONYM (+ co-meronym) He wounded his left hand in the war. He could not bend his index finger since. His fingers were fine. But he lost his thumb. The general nouns (1) Did you know that the chancellor was expected to resign? – Yes. It seems to have made no impression on the man. (2) Can you recommend somewhere to stay in Brussels? I‘ve never been to the place. (3) I went to Brisbane to see my great-aunt. The poor old girl‘s getting forgetful these days. collocation It refers to the association of lexical items that regularly co-occur. He is smoking a pipe Do you have a pipe? I want to smoke. Chapter 11 Lexical Cohesion 1. knowledge of cohesion 2. Grammatical cohesion 3. lexical cohesion Definition of cohesion How can elements of a text be tied together into a coherent whole? A text is not a random collection of lexical items or sentences at random. Instead, it must be semantically unified. Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. Cohesion can be defined as the links that hold a text together and give it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence, which will be elaborated in next lecture. There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical, referring to the structural content, and lexical, referring to the language content of the piece. A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, Halliday and Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts: reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical cohesion, and conjunction. Here, cohesive ties