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- Title
Introduction.
- Authors
Flowerdew, John; Mahlberg, Michaela
- Abstract
The article presents an introduction to lexical cohesion. The study of lexical items and the way they relate to each other and to other cohesive devices shows how textual continuity is created. Five types of cohesion are observed in English. Two distinct aspects are reiteration and collocation. Reiteration is the repetition of a lexical item, whereas collocation is the use of a word which is associated with another word. The other devices are elaboration, extension, and enhancement. Corpus linguistic methodologies or descriptive tools are found to emerge only of late. Corpus linguistic techniques are of immense help in the research into lexical cohesion. The application of corpus linguistic concepts to a field which is tradionally occupied by textlinguistics is not much known.
- Subjects
COHESION (Linguistics); LEXICOLOGY; COLLOCATION (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; REPETITION (Rhetoric); ENGLISH language education; CLASSROOM learning centers; ENGLISH clauses; EPONYMS; LINGUISTIC context; ANAPHORA (Linguistics)
- Publication
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
1384-6655
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijcl.11.3.02flo