Cohesion as an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis and translation has aroused many researchers‟ interest. To explore the regularity in shifting conjunction devices from English into Farsi our study was designed to analyze the similarities and differences of cohesive device of conjunction between English International Law texts (ELTs) and their Farsi translation texts (FTTs)....

This study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. The analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) Iranian undergraduates of English. This prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writ...

This study is mainly aimed at analyzing cohesive devices in the reading texts on Accounting at ULSA, finding out teachers’ attitudes towards cohesion teaching. Four reading texts were chosen as core materials for the analysis of the cohesive devices. Five teachers from English Department were asked to take part in the interview in order to give ideas about their attitudes towards teaching cohes...

Based on LSA’s (Latent Semantic Analysis) measuring textual coherence and Halliday and Hasan’s cohesive concepts and their categorization of cohesive devices, this paper analyzes coherent relatedness and cohesive devices of 100 Chinese students’ English writings. The results indicate that (1) LSA is proved to be an objective and appropriate method in measuring the textual coherence, and (2) clo...

This paper investigates factors that can be used in discourse analysis, specifically, cohesive devices. The paper shows that cohesive devices such as cue phrases can provide information about the linkages inside a text. We propose three types of cue phrases (the ordinary cue phrases, noun-phrase cues, and verb-phrase cues). An algorithm to compute rhetorical relations between two elementary dis...

The Role of Lexical Properties and Cohesive Devices in Text Integration and Their Effect on Human Ratings of Speaking Proficiency Scott Crossley, Amanda Clevinger & YouJin Kim To cite this article: Scott Crossley, Amanda Clevinger & YouJin Kim (2014) The Role of Lexical Properties and Cohesive Devices in Text Integration and Their Effect on Human Ratings of Speaking Proficiency, Language Assess...

Discourse markers (DMs) are ubiquitous cohesive devices used to connect what is said or written. However, across languages there is divergence in their usage, placement, and frequency, which is considered to be a major problem for machine translation (MT). This paper presents an overview of a proposed thesis, exploring the difficulties around DMs in MT, with a focus on Chinese and English. The ...