Cohesion in Text Halliday & Hasan (1976, p.4) states that “the concept of cohesion is a semantic one, it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text”, this suggests that cohesion happens when some of the elements is dependent on each other. Halliday & Hasan (1976), McCarthy (1991) and others suggest that there are different kind of ties that interrelates texts which are ellipsis/substitution, conjunction, reference, general lexical cohesion, instantial lexical cohesion and thematic patterning. With the use of above ties, the text provided ‘Facebook overhauls News Feed in favor of ‘meaningful social interactions’’ would be analyzed to show the cohesion that exists and how they fall into the framework. 1) Ellipsis/Substitution …show more content…
It is further stated that ellipsis usually means “something left is unsaid” but it is nevertheless understood (Halliday & Hasan 1976, p.142) Based on the text, L13, ‘Thursday’ is written instead of the date as the text is dated ‘12th January, 2018’, which is a Friday so a day before should have been 11th January, 2018 a ‘Thursday’, using the explanation as stated by Halliday & Hasan, it can be understood as it is not stated clearly but still understood. This ellipsis contributes towards the relevance of the date of when such announcement was made as per L1. Another ellipsis is on L11, instead of referring to ‘Zuckerberg’ as ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ repeatedly, ‘Mark’ is omitted, it is again understood that ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ is known and commonly referred in media by his last name only. This links to the outside of the text which is shared …show more content…
202), there are 3 kinds of instantial lexical cohesion which are: a) Equivalence b) Naming c) Semblance The lexical cohesion taking place in L14, ‘father of two’ refers to Mark Zuckerberg which is an equivalence meaning ‘father of two’ equals to Mark Zuckerberg and vice versa. This equivalence to Mark Zuckerbeg being a father to two children, Max and August and the importance that it brings to the text is that it is putting light on the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to bring change as he wants his children to know that ‘what their father built was good for the world’ and hence using the equivalence of ‘father of two’ to emphasize. Another instantial cohesion is the naming of ‘Facebook’ on L1, as in other lines like, L5 ‘the social media platform’, L16, L22, L27, L35 refers it to as ‘the company’ and on L35 refers it to as ‘the site’. This is repeated naming of ‘Facebook’ to ‘the company’. 6) Thematic Patterning According to McCarthy (1991), there are 2 phenomena with the theme/rheme patterning: a) The rheme in one sentence become the theme of the next sentence b) The theme is repeated in the next
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