ASHIKA GOBRIE ENG2601 EXAM PREP 1) Cohesion  A text is made up of grammatical and lexical elements, and cohesive features are those that link one part of it with another.  These linkages provide a sense of wholeness and internal unity, and allow a text

ASHIKA GOBRIE ENG2601 EXAM PREP 1) Cohesion  A text is made up of grammatical and lexical elements, and cohesive features are those that link one part of it with another.  These linkages provide a sense of wholeness and internal unity, and allow a text to be read and understood easily.  Thus, cohesion plays a vital role in achieving coherence Lexical cohesions Related words or phrases belonging to the same semantic field. This related vocabulary enables us to recognise the context, thus aiding coherence Examples:  Repetition-of words or phrases  synonymy-words that are similar in meaning  antonymy-words that are opposite in meaning  collocation-words that belong to the same semantic field  time markers-relating to time (early, late, dates)  sense relations-(human-man, woman, girl, boy, he, she, people