•Lexical cohesion on YouTube is multimodal, cross-modal and intertextual.•Cohesive ties exist between the video and the comments as well as between the comments.•A YouTube discussion may appear ...fragmented but still show dense cohesion.•Qualitative and corpus methods reveal how fragmentation is a feature on the surface only.
This paper investigates the use and functions of lexical cohesion within and across modes as well as levels of interaction on a YouTube channel, arguing that lexical cohesion contributes to coherence by establishing links between the video, the comments and sources elsewhere on the internet in a cross-modal and intertextual manner. The analysis focuses on one video and its comments section, investigating the use of cohesion in maintaining coherence and unity across a lengthy YouTube interaction initiated by the video and continued in the comments. Cohesive ties are examined with regard to their functions in the process of meaning-making in this mediated and multimodal context. The results reveal that the use of cohesive ties is extensive within and across modes and levels of interaction. Chains of cohesion are created within the comments, with cross-modal links to the video. Despite the complex multimodality of YouTube and the fragmentation of the comments as many participants post short comments one after another, the YouTube interaction is shown to be coherent.
This article has been retracted due to double publication found at https://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/LC/article/view/14943 Apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not ...detected during the submission process.
This study is related to the cohesion applied in the novel The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. The investigation is focused on the utterances produced by Kemal when talking with Fusun. This paper ...aims to examine what grammatical and lexical cohesion are used and how these cohesions relate to each other. Because the data were collected in the form of utterances, descriptive qualitative research was applied, and to get a clear understanding of the phenomena that occur in the novel, a content analysis was used. The results showed that Kemal used references, substitutions, ellipsis, and conjunctions in the heading grammatical cohesion and repetition, synonyms, and antonyms in the lexical cohesion heading when talking with Fusun. From these findings, it can be concluded that Kemal’s utterances were constructed through grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Regarding the type of grammatical cohesion, reference is the most dominant, and referring to the type of lexical cohesion, repetition is more often used by Kemal. So it can be said that cohesion analysis plays an important role in creating meaning in communication.
This article tackles the phenomenon whereby a full compound is introduced in a text and subsequently referred to only through its head. The latter is called a covert compound. For example: "the ...limited impact of government policy after 1905 in general and of the Stolypin land reform in particular. True, in the country as a whole the reform helped to reduce ...". It is proposed that reform in this context is a compound which flies under the radar, since its actual referent is in fact land reform but, for various reasons, the non-head has been elided and only the head retained upon second mention. Our assumption is that on some occasions a compound will be introduced in a text and then repeated in full, while on others only the head will be repeated after the first mention. The postulate of this article is that ignoring covert compounds implies a limited view of compounding, and in turn of the lexicon. Its aim is thus to use corpus data to look into how a given concept initially named by a compound is referred to subsequently through a simplified lexical unit. The findings point to a high presence of open low-frequency non-lexicalized compounds among covert compounds and to a dominance of Object-orientation with the semantic roles Agent and Object.
This study examines memory retrieval and syntactic composition using fMRI while participants listen to a book,
The Little Prince
. These two processes are quantified drawing on methods from ...computational linguistics. Memory retrieval is quantified via multi-word expressions that are likely to be stored as a unit, rather than built-up compositionally. Syntactic composition is quantified via bottom-up parsing that tracks tree-building work needed in composed syntactic phrases. Regression analyses localise these to spatially-distinct brain regions. Composition mainly correlates with bilateral activity in anterior temporal lobe and inferior frontal gyrus. Retrieval of stored expressions drives right-lateralised activation in the precuneus. Less cohesive expressions activate well-known nodes of the language network implicated in composition. These results help to detail the neuroanatomical bases of two widely-assumed cognitive operations in language processing.
This research aims to analyse a piece of argumentative writing produced by fifth semester of Darussunnah students in a term of cohesion issues of discourse analysis. The cohesive devices are viewed ...as a structure of analysis to investigate the grammatical and lexical cohesion in writing. Qualitative and quantitative (mixed method) were applied in analysing the data. The quantitative analysis investigates the frequency and percentage of errors committed in student’s writing. Qualitative analysis were employed to investigate linguistic description and the explanation of the cohesion produced by student’s writing. The result showed that students have performed the cohesive devices. However, students need to improve the use of cohesive device, especially in grammatical cohesion to result higher level of cohesion. Key Words: Argumentative writing, cohesive devices, grammatical and lexical cohesion Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis karya tulis argumentatif mahasiswa semester V Darussunnah dalam kerangka analisis permasalahan kohesi. Perangkat kohesif dipandang sebagai struktur analisis untuk menyelidiki kohesi gramatikal dan leksikal dalam menulis. Analisis data dilakukan secara kualitatif dan kuantitatif (metode campuran). Analisis kuantitatif penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki frekuensi dan persentase kesalahan yang dilakukan dalam kegiatan menulis siswa. Analisis kualitatif digunakan untuk menyelidiki deskripsi linguistik dan penjelasan tentang kohesi yang dihasilkan oleh tulisan siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa siswa telah melaksanakan perangkat kohesif. Namun, siswa perlu meningkatkan penggunaan perangkat kohesif, terutama pada kohesi gramatikal untuk menghasilkan tingkat kohesi yang lebih tinggi. Kata kunci:Penulisan argumentatif, perangkat kohesif, kohesi gramatikal dan leksikal
Text Analysis Tools in ESP Teaching. Case Study Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează)
"Ovidius" University Annals. Economic Sciences Series (Online),
01/2020, Volume:
XX, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This study, structured into two main sections (a theoretical part and a practical one) deals with the important role played by text analysis tools in ESP courses and seminars, when choosing ...appropriate teaching materials. The first section of the paper tackles theoretical concepts related to lexical cohesion, reiteration and collocations, and the roles played by vocabulary within discourse. The practical section analyses the results issued by two text analysis tools, i.e. Voyant Tools and SEO Scout, which processed an authentic corpus from the economic field, showing, among others, its lexical density, lexical diversity and collocates. These results provide vital information about the complexity of the analyzed corpus and about its appropriate use in ESP classes.
The study tackles the two notions of cohesion and coherence in modern linguistic study. Cohesion is the relation of meaning, the connections or the ties which exists within a text and provides the ...semantic unity required in the structure of that text. The semantic unity is expressed, partly through the grammatical resources and partly through the vocabulary. There are two kinds of cohesive ties: grammatical such as reference, ellipsis, substitution and conjunctions and lexical, including reiteration and collocation. In fact, the importance of cohesion lies in the fact that it does not only provide the structure of grammatical unity but it, also, participates in creating the semantic unity or the coherence of a text. Texts, presumably, the main area of operation for cohesion, are seen as language units which have a definable, communicative function, characterized by such principles as cohesion, coherence and informativeness which can be used to provide a formal definition of what constitutes their identifying textuality of a texture. A text, plainly, has to be coherent as well as cohesive. In short, cohesion is not a simple unitary concept. It has been one of the most controversial issues in modern linguistic studies.
This study aims to describe the use of grammatical and lexical cohesion markers, the variation of the grammatical and lexical cohesion markers use, and the misuse of cohesion markers on the ...exposition of the students. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. Data sources came from a collection of students expository text, with purposive sampling as data analysis technique. The results of this study indicates that: (1) the most used grammatical cohesion marker by class X IPS 2 students is the reference form with the highest appearance of 42 data, while the lexical cohesion marker most used is form repetition with the highest appearance of 13 data; (2) the use of the grammatical and lexical cohesion marker in writing the exposition has been shown to be varied, although the use is still uneven; (3) the most common misuse of grammatical cohesion marker in the student exposition is the use of the conjunction with the percentage of 73.08%.
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