Cohesion In English Texts

Yesterday I discussed with a party. The party

was very funny but they could not dance it

because she was dancing so loudly that I could not

hear the class.

Read the following lines and explain what happens with it.

A: The Phone is ringingB: I’m in the bathroomC: Ok

Can you understand the following conversation?

According to what we’ve studied so far, what’s COHERENCE for

you?The previous examples show that coherence depends on the ability of the

reader/listener to:

-Identify the relationships between the -ilo- and locutionary acts, by

- activating his-her previous knowledge about:

- The topic, the information given by the cotext and context where the text is or

was produced.

In a sentence, It’s given by the order in which its elements are

organized. Tey are:

It comes at the

beginning of the

sentence

It comes after the Theme

WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t confuse THEME and RHEME with SUBJECT and PREDICATE, since they

correspond to different levels of analysis.

THEME RHEME

SUBJECTPREDICATE

Syntactic Level.

Pragmatic Level.

THEME RHEMEThe teacher

We

A new text

This morning,

WhoGive

Please,

gave us a new text this morningwere given a new text by the teacherwas given to us by the teacher this morninga new text was given by the teachergave us a new text this morning?us a new text this morning, pleasegive us a new text

GIVEN INFORMATION

The information that has already

been mentioned or inferable from

information already mentioned in previous parts of

the text

NEWINFORMATION

Refers to the information that

has not been mentioned, or cannot been

inferred from the text or context.

Given Information

NewInformation

Theme position:At the

beginning of the clause

Rheme position

At the end of the clause

THEMATIC PATTERINGThe constant

patternIt’s when the THEME is repeated over several clauses or sentences, and it’s

coded through different cohesive devices.

T1 R1

T2 R2

T3 R3

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS PATTERN?

Urea is a very important chemical because

which is used in many industrial and

biological processes. It is excreted in the

urine as an end product of protein

metabolism. It is produced on large scale

and 0 used as a fertilizer and raw material

in the manufacture of some plastics and

drugs. It can be extracted from natural

processes or 0 artificially prepared in

laboratories.

THEMATIC PATTERINGThe linear Thematic

PatternIt’s when the THEME of every sentence is chosen from the Rheme of the

previous clause or sentence.

T1 R1

T2 R2

T3R3

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS PATTERN?

The early feminist movement was

greatly influenced by the work on

Mary Wollstonecraft. She

proposed a feminist agenda

whose aims were to expose the

exclusion of women from

traditionally “male” spheres like

politics, economics, education and

religion . These aims became a

main focus for religious women in

particular in the United States.

THEMATIC PATTERING

The complex combined pattern

It results from the combination of two or more patterns already described

TEXTTEXTURE

COHESION

A semantic Unit

The effect produced by

connections that exist

between function words

and content words in texts.

The effect caused by

cohesion

LEXICAL

COHESION

GRAMMATICA

L COHESION

FIND THE MISTAKE IN THIS READING…

Artist Pablo Cassels, lost his pants on The London

Underground last week and he has offered $200 to

the person who returns them. If you have any

information, phone 0178-334-5656

Thank Goodness I didn’t lose my

Brushes!!!

FIND THE MISTAKE IN THIS READING…

LONELY HEARTS

Small, single, intelligent woman wishes to meet

tall, attractive, non-smoking mule. Please send

photos and phone number to Box 242.

“Will you marry me?”