Examples Of Reiteration As A Form Of Cohesion

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Reiteration means saying something several times. As a lexical device for achieving cohesion, it is shown in three ways. Reiteration includes not only the repetition of the same lexical item but also the occurrence of a related item, which may be anything from a synonym or near synonym of the original to a general word. Reiteration can be categorized as follow: (a) the same word (b) synonym or near synonym, (c) a superordinate or (d) a general word (Halliday and Hasan, 1976).
In Martin's (1992) discussion reiteration is regarded as the occurrence where lexical cohesion " . . .[does] not depend on identity of reference; patterns of word occurrences which by themselves give a separate, purely lexical dimension of internal cohesion of a text" (Halliday and Hasan 1976, p.282). …show more content…

Antonymy includes another type of lexical cohesion in which cohesion is provided by the selection of an item which is opposite in meaning to a preceding lexical item.
Ali received a letter from bank yesterday. He will send answer next day.
Hoey (1991) argues that lexical cohesion is the single most important form of cohesion, accounting for something like forty percent of cohesive ties in texts. He continues that various lexical relationships between the different sentences making up a text provide a measure of the cohesiveness of the text. The centrality and importance to the text of any particular sentence within the text will be determined by the number of lexical connections that sentence has to other sentences in the text.
Cohesion and coherence, two important textual elements (Halliday and Hasan, 1976; Halliday, 2000, have long been recognized as important features of 'good' writing. A text has textual features which collectively constitute its 'texture' and distinguish it from non-text. 'Cohesion' of which lexical devices are sub-type helps bring about a semantic continuity and is very important to deal with in reading

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