Media Cohesion Essay

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I- Scope of the study This research examines cohesion in written media discourse. O'keeffe (2012) refers to media discourse as "interactions that takes place through a broadcast platform whether spoken or written" (Gee and Handford, 2012, p.441). Newspapers and magazines are examples of the written discourse. But, radio, television and news broadcasts are instances of the spoken discourse. Media is considered a primary source of information. So, media discourse is of a great interest to linguists who studied it through discourse analysis. Stubbs(1983) summarizes the main objective of discourse analysis as an attempt to analyse larger units than the clause or sentence, such as interactive exchanges and whole texts. (p.1) Cohesion is a basic trend of discourse analysis. Moreover, cohesion is "the way certain words or grammatical features of a sentence can connect that sentence to its predecessors and successors in a text."(Hoey, 1996, p.3). So, cohesive ties are important in organizing, structuring and …show more content…

According to Baker(1992), It is based on the selection of vocabulary in creating relation within the text.(p.202). Lexical cohesion "occurs when two words in a text are semantically related in some way – in other words, they are related in terms of their meaning." (Nunan,1993,p.28). Hoey(1991) argues that lexical cohesion is the most important type of cohesion and the most dominant kind of cohesive ties in texts. Tanskanen(2006) criticized Halliday and Hasan's(1976) model of lexical cohesion because of their short treatment of it in their book Cohesion in English although it constitutes half of the cohesive devices they analyze in the text analysis at the back of their book."(p.1) In Halliday and Hasan(1976),lexical cohesion has two basic categories which are reiteration and collocation and reiteration is divided into repetition, synonymy(or near synonymy), superordinate and general words(general

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