The use of cohesion in text can create relationships between elements of language in communication so that effective communication is created for language users. This study aims to describe the use ...of grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion in the text of the report on the results of the observation of Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program at Pakuan University, Bogor. This study uses a descriptive and qualitative approach while the method used is the method proposed by Halliday and Hasan regarding cohesion. Based on the results of the research conducted, it was found that the use of grammatical cohesion in the form of references, substitutions, ellipsis and conjunctions, and lexical cohesion consisted of synonymy, hypernymy and collocation in the observation report text of Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program at Bogor Pakuan University.
Abstract
The development of technology, in particular, innovations in natural language processing and means to explore big
data, has influenced different aspects in the training of translators and ...interpreters. This paper investigates how learner
corpora and their research contribute to the teaching and learning of translation and interpreting. It starts with a review of the
evolvement of learner corpora in translator and interpreter training. Drawing on data from the Chinese/English Translation and
Interpreting Learner Corpus (CETILC), a learner corpus developed for the study of lexical cohesion, the paper introduces three
case studies to illustrate the possibilities of exploring learner data through human annotation, machine-facilitated human
annotation, and finally human-supervised/edited machine annotation. The findings of the case studies suggest the complexity of
learner language and its intricate relationships with various factors concerning the learner, text, and task. The paper ends with
a discussion of the great potentials of purposely made learner corpora such as the CETILC in translator and interpreter training,
as well as the application of learner corpora in (semi-) automatic processing of learner texts.
Using
The New York Times’ and
China Daily's reports of the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia in May 1999 as examples, this article aims to unravel the processes of representing the ...event and its social actors in news texts. The article focuses on investigating the relations between choices of certain linguistic forms and the ideologies and power relations which underlie such forms. Guided by assumptions of critical discourse analysis and drawing on the analytical framework offered in Michael Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar, the article examines two dimensions of clause grammar: transitivity and lexical cohesion, which may be respectively associated with the ideational and textual functions of language. By analyzing aspects of clause grammar related to these two dimensions of language in news texts of different ideological orientations, the article shows that interpretations of the NATO bombing and of the roles of social actors involved in the bombing event are constructed in the specific choices that each newspaper makes in the two dimensions of text organization.
Beyond proficiency Towns, Stuart G.; Watson Todd, Richard
English text construction,
10/2019, Volume:
12, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Many studies have investigated the correlations between linguistic features and human judgements of writing
quality. These studies usually investigate either proficient student writing or ...exceptional literary writing. The current study
attempts to bridge these two perspectives by comparing proficient writing to award-winning exceptional writing using movie reviews
written by bloggers and Pulitzer Prize winners. A range of linguistic features representing syntactic complexity, lexical
complexity, and lexical cohesion were analyzed using both automated and interpretive methods. It is found that some, but not all,
of the trends seen in writing development studies continue on to exceptional writing, with lexical sophistication and lexical
cohesion through conceptual associations making the largest contributions to the differences between proficient and exceptional
writers.
Este artículo estudia la posibilidad de aplicar la teoría de grafos o redes al análisis de la progresión temática y la cohesión textual. Para ello, se analizan seis textos de divulgación científica: ...tres sobre el mismo tema, el aceite de palma, otro sobre el aceite de oliva y dos de control; uno creado por la unión de dos textos de temas diferentes y el otro por párrafos con distintas temáticas seleccionados aleatoriamente. Se ha creado, de cada texto, un grafo no dirigido y pesado de coocurrencias con ventana 5 gram. En primer lugar, se han analizado las medidas globales del grafo para conocer su topología; en segundo lugar, se ha empleado el grado de intermediación de los lemas para conocer los temas de cada texto y se ha estudiado como estos evolucionan; en tercer lugar, a través de la modularidad del grafo, se ha analizado en qué párrafos aparecen los diferentes temas y cómo ha evolucionado.
Story segmentation divides a multimedia stream into homogenous regions each addressing a central topic. Lexical cohesion is a reasonable indicator for story boundaries. However, for story ...segmentation of Chinese broadcast news, directly measuring word level lexical cohesion is not applicable, because the texts transcribed from audio is highly unreliable and the inevitable speech recognition errors may significantly break word cohesion, thus heavily degrading the segmentation performance. To address the problem, we propose to use subword level cohesion in story segmentation of Chinese broadcast news, because Chinese subwords play great semantic roles and show robustness to speech recognition errors. We provide a comprehensive study on the effectiveness of subword units in story segmentation of Chinese speech recognition transcripts, and analyze the influence of recognition errors to the segmentation performance. Specifically, we study subword-based TextTiling and lexical chaining approaches to story segmentation, in which lexical cohesion is measured using either character or syllable
n-grams (
n
=
1,
2,
3,
4). Our extensive experiments demonstrate performance improvement of subword unigrams and bigrams over word-based methods. For instance, tested on the CCTV corpus, character unigram lexical chaining obtains a relative
F1-measure gain of 12% over words on erroneous brief news transcripts (with word error rate of 40.9%). Generally, we find that subword-based methods can often obtain better segmentation than word-based ones for both error-free and erroneous transcripts.
•Use of a computational procedure to predict paragraph breaks in argumentative text.•Connecting pragmatics of discourse literature to computational findings.•Noting significant presence of literary ...rhetorical devices at paragraph juncture affecting procedure results.
Computational linguistic work into the paragraph and paragraphing has highlighted the significant role that intra-paragraph lexical cohesion plays in ‘marking off’ one paragraph unit from another. The goal of the research reported on in this paper is to consider, in some detail, the relationship that exists between the lexical repetition patterns in an argumentative text (as identified by a computational procedure), the genre moves within it, the actual paragraphing of the texts, and the textual colligation features of the paragraphs. The Link Set Median procedure (Berber-Sardinha, 1997, 2001, 2002) is used to document exact, inflectional and derivational lexical repetition usage across 10 short English argumentative texts, and to predict where segmentations originally occurred in the texts. The resulting data are then analyzed in the light of diverse research interests into the paragraph, and classified accordingly. A comparison of these results is made with data where there is either a marginal or no difference in the link set medians of adjacent sentences across paragraph junctures within the same texts. It is suggested that this novel approach of analyzing computational data from multiple paragraph-specific research interests results in a clearer picture of paragraphing practice emerging.
Lexical cohesion significantly contributes to a text’s thematic progression, and by meansof it to perceived coherence. Therefore, the ability to express lexical cohesive relationsrepresents one of ...the areas of learners’ inter-language that are to be developed in foreignlanguage instruction. The paper reports on the development of lexical cohesion (namelythe class of reiteration) in EFL undergraduate and postgraduate academic writing as aresult of participation in a purely online academic writing course involving no face-tofaceinteraction. The course was delivered at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.To determine the effect of the treatment, a quasi-experimental one-group pre-test post-testdesign was followed, with the genre of argumentative essay assigned for both measures.The pre/post-test analysis comprised two stages: the identification and classificationof reiteration pairs based on Tanskanen’s framework (2006) followed by subsequentevaluation of each pair in terms of its appropriateness/correctness. Thus, every pair wasclassified either as appropriate/well-formed or as displaying a sign of immature writingwith respect to given genre expectations. The occurrence of key lexical items formingchains of cohesion was also monitored. After the treatment, the use of reiteration devicesin students’ compositions improved in several respects. A greater variety of reiterationrelations was observed, with a statistically significant decline in simple repetition andcorresponding increases in other categories of reiteration relations. In addition, thepre/post-test comparison showed a statistically significant increase in the number ofreiteration pairs that were classified as appropriate/well-formed, and in the frequency ofkey lexical items.
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