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The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles
Date
2020
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The British University in Dubai (BUiD) 2020-04
Abstract
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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cohesive devices; reference; ellipsis; substitution; conjunctions; lexical
cohesion