The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles

The role of cohesive devices in different types of discourses has been broadly acknowledged to be maintaining texture, or holding the different parts of the text together. This role was emphasised in a plethora of studies in discourse analysis, and cohesive devices have been considered to be the glu...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Abu-Ayyash, Emad A. S. (author)
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Abu-Ayyash, Emad A. S.
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2020
2025-04-14T15:26:38Z
2025-04-14T15:26:38Z
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv 2616-6828
https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/2898
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dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv The British University in Dubai (BUiD) 2020-04
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Journal for Researching Education Practice and Theory (JREPT) Vol 3, Number 1, 2020, pp. 4-51
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv cohesive devices; reference; ellipsis; substitution; conjunctions; lexical cohesion
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv Article
description The role of cohesive devices in different types of discourses has been broadly acknowledged to be maintaining texture, or holding the different parts of the text together. This role was emphasised in a plethora of studies in discourse analysis, and cohesive devices have been considered to be the glue-like linguistic tools through which textuality is achieved and without which a certain piece of discourse would look like fragmented, disconnected sentences. Important as it is, the ‘gluing’ role of cohesive devices has been the primary and dominant focus of research and whether these devices can play other roles in texts has been under-investigated, if not ignored. The current paper addresses this gap in research by exploring other possible roles of cohesive devices. Three newspaper, opinion articles for one of the renowned writers, Thomas L. Friedman, were selected and analysed in terms of the various roles played by cohesive devices in them. Through mixed-methods analysis, it was found that cohesive devices played several roles other than holding the various parts of the text together.
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spelling The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New RolesAbu-Ayyash, Emad A. S.cohesive devices; reference; ellipsis; substitution; conjunctions; lexical cohesionThe role of cohesive devices in different types of discourses has been broadly acknowledged to be maintaining texture, or holding the different parts of the text together. This role was emphasised in a plethora of studies in discourse analysis, and cohesive devices have been considered to be the glue-like linguistic tools through which textuality is achieved and without which a certain piece of discourse would look like fragmented, disconnected sentences. Important as it is, the ‘gluing’ role of cohesive devices has been the primary and dominant focus of research and whether these devices can play other roles in texts has been under-investigated, if not ignored. The current paper addresses this gap in research by exploring other possible roles of cohesive devices. Three newspaper, opinion articles for one of the renowned writers, Thomas L. Friedman, were selected and analysed in terms of the various roles played by cohesive devices in them. Through mixed-methods analysis, it was found that cohesive devices played several roles other than holding the various parts of the text together.The British University in Dubai (BUiD) 2020-042025-04-14T15:26:38Z2025-04-14T15:26:38Z2020Article2616-6828https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/2898en_USJournal for Researching Education Practice and Theory (JREPT) Vol 3, Number 1, 2020, pp. 4-51oai:bspace.buid.ac.ae:1234/28982026-01-29T15:46:25Z
spellingShingle The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
Abu-Ayyash, Emad A. S.
cohesive devices; reference; ellipsis; substitution; conjunctions; lexical cohesion
title The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
title_full The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
title_fullStr The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
title_full_unstemmed The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
title_short The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
title_sort The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
topic cohesive devices; reference; ellipsis; substitution; conjunctions; lexical cohesion
url https://bspace.buid.ac.ae/handle/1234/2898