Some Cohesive Devices

Mohd Rashid
Ansari
M.A.(ELT) II Sem
 Substitution
Elipsis

Which Book do you want? I’ll take the red ONE.

(Nominal)
 Substitution
Elipsis

I have coffee every morning and he does too.

(Verbal)
 Substitution
Elipsis

A: He is intelligent.
B: Okay, if you say so.
(Clausal)
 Ellipsis

I kicked the pink ball and then the black .

(nominal)
 Ellipsis

Rashid played roll ball and Shadab football.

(Verbal)
 Ellipsis

A: Do you play tennis?

B: No.
(Clausal)
 Conjunction

“The most explicit and obvious cohesive

devices in the text.

…..Halliday and Matthiessen (2004:536)

 Conjunction
types

Additive (and, in addition, besides,….

Adversative (but, yet, though, however)

Causal (So, then, therefore)

Temporal (next, after that, finally)
 Reference

Pronoun •he, she, it.

Noun Phrases •a writer, my friend, the cat

Proper Noun •Chomsky, Jennifer, Whiskas,

 An additional information which a listener or
reader uses to interpret.
Inferenc
e
……..Yule, George

• Can I look at your Chomsky?

 Citations
1. The Study of Language, Yule George

2. Handouts provided by teachers