LINGUIST List 20.3363
Tue Oct 06 2009
Diss: Text/Corpus Ling: Cha: 'Linguistic Cohesion in Texts: Theory...'
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1. Jin
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Linguistic Cohesion in Texts: Theory and Description
Message 1: Linguistic Cohesion in Texts: Theory and Description
Date: 05-Oct-2009
From: Jin Cha <jscs1945hanmail.net>
Subject: Linguistic Cohesion in Texts: Theory and Description
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Institution: McGill University
Program: Department of Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 1982
Author: Jin Soon Cha
Dissertation Title: Linguistic Cohesion in Texts: Theory and Description
Linguistic Field(s):
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Dissertation Director:
Myrna Gopnik
Dissertation Abstract:
This study is an attempt to construct a theoretical and descriptiveframework for the analysis of lexicogrammatical, semantic and semioticcohesion, called the Extended Systemic Cohesive Model. This model is anextension of the Halliday-Hasan model (1976) whose descriptive range islimited to lexicogrammatical cohesion. The classical hypothesis thatcohesion is realized through the lexicogrammatical system is proved to beinadequate. An alternative thesis is proposed and justified: that cohesionis captured at lexicogrammatical, semantic and semiotic levels. As aresult, a linguistic framework is constructed which explicitly accounts forthe properties that make a text hang together at these three particularlevels, and its applicability is tested against given empirical data. Thediscussion is focused on how and why the above three types of cohesioncontribute to the unity of a text plus a critical review of previousrelevant work.
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