Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

Dontcheva-Navratilová, Olga; Jančaříková, Renata; Miššíková, Gabriela; Povolná, Renata

doi:10.5817/cz.muni.m210-8857-2017

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“…The grammatical devices that manifest in the presentations are reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. They are used to bring about cohesion in the same way the lexical items could be used to achieve cohesive bond in human discourse (Ogunsiji & Farinde, 2013;Dontcheva-Navratilova, 2017).…”

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Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

Alolade

2024

SALEE

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There is rarely any radio station that do not present programme on sports in the contemporary age. Most radio stations have their sports analysis in the various languages that their prospective listeners understand. It is possible because the issue of sports had become inevitable to the people irrespective of age, colour, and gender. It has become a unifying force among people of varied background. This, therefore, necessitated linguistic investigation into the grammatical properties utilized by sports analysts in their presentations on the radio. The study examines the occurrence of each grammatical property in enhancing cohesion in the presentations made by sports presenters on the radio stations. These grammatical devices include: reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Ferdinand Saussures Model of Language Structure on Syntagmatic Relation was utilized as the theoretical framework for the study. The data for analysis in the study comprised thirty sports presentations that were recorded and afterwards transcribed to examine the manifestations of the grammatical devices. The results from the analyses show that personal reference is the most prominent of all the types of reference. Nominal substitution and nominal ellipsis are the most recurrent of the types of substitution and ellipsis respectively. The striking manifestations of coordinating, subordinating, and additive conjuncts dominate the types of conjunction employed by the sports analysts on the radio. The study suggests that radio analysts should continually undergo programmes that will enhance their grammatical competence and as well see language as a weapon for expressing content and meaning by practically influencing their listener. Key Words: Conjunction, Discourse, Ellipsis, Grammatical Cohesion, Reference, Substitution,

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Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

Alolade

2024

SALEE

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“…In addition to cultural differences, students' lacking knowledge of the style and conventions in their field may limit their use of cohesive and hedging devices. These challenges, however, are probably common to most scholars at the early stages of their careers despite their cultural background or home country [45], [47], and learning the academic discourse practices is essential on the path towards expertise [29].…”

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“…Adverbials: Adverbials are used as a tool to indicate semantic relations, express connections between ideas, or exercise interpersonal, rhetorical functions [16], [23], [32], [47]. Text connectives 4 , for example, play a key role in creating cohesion in a text, in other words, acting as text internal cohesive links [23] but may also have interpersonal functions of metadiscourse.…”

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On the Rocky Road to Academia: Stumbling Blocks for Finnish Engineering Students with English as a Second Language

Niemelä

Naukkarinen

2020

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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Communication skills, especially academic writing skills in English, are vital for a successful career in the global scientific community. Finnish engineering students, however, seem to encounter problems when preparing their scientific publications in English as a second language (ESL) for international forums. Thus, these skills should be enhanced at all levels of academic education to promote students’ development as experts in their field. The paper describes challenges faced by engineering students in academic writing and seeks solutions to promote students’ learning process. In addition to communication issues, the paper enlightens the environment and conditions in which the engineering students operate. By an interpretive study, the paper examines texts written by Finnish engineering students. The qualitative textual analysis is based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. Further, the paper discusses learning of academic writing from the perspective of situated learning. Based on the textual analysis, the paper identifies challenges and problems in academic writing, namely unfamiliarity with publication practices, grammar and terminology problems, unawareness of academic discourse strategies, such as hedging and the use of cohesive devices, and challenges with handling feedback. To enhance students’ competences in academic communication within their discipline, guidance and training of communication skills should be integrated into relevant technical and academic contexts throughout the engineering studies. Thus, in addition to thesis writing, argumentation and writing skills and the use of databases can be enhanced for instance by writing course reports in the form of academic papers. Individual consultation also plays a key role in the situated learning process.

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“…Coherence is approached as a multifaceted phenomenon comprising conceptual connectedness, evaluative and dialogical consistency, and textual relatedness (Dontcheva-navratilova, 2017). This means that coherence guides writers to connect one sentence with another sentence, one paragraph with other paragraphs, one main idea with supporting ideas.…”

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Coherence in Bachelor Degree Theses in a Public University

Dollah¹,

Abduh²

2019

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Social Sciences and Humanities (ICESSHum 2019)

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There has been a lot of studies of coherence in academic writing. Many previous studies have focused on coherence in research articles, newspapers, books, and literary works. There is not much research on coherence in undergraduate student thesis. This study aims to respond to the knowledge gap. This aims to identify the coherence in bachelor thesis writing in English department of a public university. The case study used 171 of students' thesis who graduated from 2016 to 2018. The findings of the study are that coherence becomes one of the main problems in thesis writing especially lack of consistency, low quality, logical orders, and organization of writing. Therefore, the findings of the research have significant pedagogical implications for lecturers, researchers, and students. It is suggested that students need be aware of thesis guidelines, the standard quality of academic writing, attend academic writing training, regular meetings with thesis supervisors, and the writing practice. It also informs thesis supervisors to critically evaluate supervision management and procedures.

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Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

Cited by 9 publications

References 71 publications

Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria

On the Rocky Road to Academia: Stumbling Blocks for Finnish Engineering Students with English as a Second Language

Coherence in Bachelor Degree Theses in a Public University

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