Cohesion

Question 0

E.G. “Safe and sound”

Idioms (expressions that don’t have literal meaning)

and cliches (v. common & overused phrases=little meaning).

Answer 0

Collocations

Question 1

What are collocations

Answer 1

Words associated within phrases.

Often well known / predictable

Question 2

What is substitution?

Answer 2

Replacement of a word or phrase with a filler to avoid repetition

Question 3

Define cohesion

Answer 3

The action or fact of forming a united whole

“Linguistic glue”

Question 4

Superordinates

Answer 4

A word whose meaning includes the meaning of one or more other words.

Something that represents a superior order or category within a system of classification.

Question 5

Hyponyms are subdivisions of the general categorisation. True or false?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Give an example of a hyponym

Answer 6

Dog - Alsatian, poodle, spaniel.

Question 7

Which theorists state that there are two types of cohesion?

Answer 7

Halliday and Hasan 1976

Question 8

What are the two different types of cohesion that H&H 1976 state there are?

Answer 8

Grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion

Question 9

H&H classify grammatical cohesion into 4 major classes…

Answer 9

1. Reference
2. Substitution
3. Ellipsis
4. Conjunction

Question 10

Conjunctions =

Answer 10

Connect clauses