What Is Lexical Cohesion Essay

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II. Application Part:
1. Lexical Cohesion: Lexical cohesion is achieved by the selection of words that are semantically related in the term of meaning.
1.1. Reiteration: Reiteration is a form of lexical cohesion that includes repetition of a lexical term and the use of a general word to refer back to a lexical item and the use of synonym or near synonym and superordinate.
1.1.1. Repetition and the given data: In the first article Days of children reading books 'are numbered, the use of repetition is clear in the article. The word “literacy” is repeated four times in the article as it is mentioned in the first paragraph and repeated in the second, the sixth and the seventh paragraph. The third paragraph …show more content…

The lexical collocation appears in the third paragraph through the use of “secondary school”. Collocation also appears in the fourth paragraph through the use of the words “reading comics”, “magazines”, “newspapers” and “online articles”. The seventh paragraph involves lexical collocation through the use of “boys” and “girls”. In the eleventh paragraph the use of collocation is clear through the use of the words “classic books” and …show more content…

In the fourth paragraph the use of additive conjunction appears through the use of “also” and “and”. In the fifth paragraph the additive conjunction is expressed by the use of “and” and the temporal conjunction is expressed by the use of “before”. The additive conjunction “and” is used in the sixth paragraph. In the seventh paragraph the use of causal conjunction involves the use of “by” and the additive conjunction involves the use of “and” and “also”. In the eighth paragraph the additive conjunction is expressed through the use of “and” and the causal conjunction is expressed through the use of “by”. In the ninth paragraph the adversative conjunction is expressed by using

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