| dc.description.abstract | Cohesion, in general, is the linking within a text that enables text to hold
together by use of various means of cohesion. Halliday and Hasan (1976:4) argue
that cohesion refers to relations of meaning that exits within the text and that
define it as a text. Thus the main idea of cohesion, in general, is to create a text
that is to be understood by its readers and Tanskanen (2006:14) points out that
cohesion refers elements of a text which form connections between parts of the
text. There have been described two main types of cohesion and they are
grammatical and lexical. Grammatical cohesion is based on the structural content
of text cohesion, which is under the scope of this thesis, is based on grammatical
content and background knowledge of the text.
Halliday and Hasan (1976:6) specify the difference between grammar and
lexical cohesion as the more general meanings are expressed through the grammar
and the more specific meanings through the vocabulary. Cohesion is used for the
analysis of text beyond the clause level. It is used not only to characterize the text
structure but also to study language development and written composition.
Moreover, it is necessary to stress that cohesion cannot be described always as
only lexical or grammatical. Cohesion according to Halliday and Hasan (1976:4)
is a semantic relation and thus it cannot be implied that it is a purely formal
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