[1] Ramad City, Anbar Province, Iraq, E-mail: malikhj.1974@gmail.com
Abstract
This paper aims at exploring the role of cohesion in persuading listeners through answering the following questions; what types of grammatical cohesive relations are displayed and what is their frequency of occurrence in the sampled text? and how does cohesion contribute to the creation and understanding of a text? A program for corpus analysis called (AntConc Tutorial (Ver. 3.2.4) developed by Laurence Anthony (Anthony, L., 2004) is used for analyzing the sample of this study which will be the speech of the Singaporean prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, on the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’, on 31 May 2021 (Appendix A). The study devotes attention to the speech of the Singaporean prime minister on this occasion due to the importance of this event which occupied the world. This paper depends on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) taxonomy of cohesive devices to analyze data.
Keywords: grammatical cohesion, coherence, conjunctions, lexical linking, surface structure, and textuality
References
Anthony, L. (2004). “AntConc: A learner and classroom friendly, multiplatfrom corpus analysis toolkit”. An Interactive Workshop on Language eLearning 7 – 13
Cain, K., Patson, N., & Andrews, L. (2005). “Age-and ability-related differences in young readers’ use of conjunctions”. Journal of Child Language, 32(04), 877-892.
De Haas, M., Algera, J., Van Tuijl, H., & Meulman, J. (2000). “Macro and micro goal setting: In search of coherence”. Applied Psychology, 49(3), 579-595.
Dey, A. K. (2001). “Understanding and using context”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5(1), 4-7.
Ghasemi, M. (2013). “An investigation into the use of cohesive devices in second language writings”. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(9), 1615-1623.
Grabe, W., & Kaplan, R. B. (1996). Theory and Practice of Writing: An Applied Linguistics Perspective. Harlow, England: Pearson Education.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as Social Semiotic: London Arnold.
Halliday, M. A. K. & Hasan, R. (2014). Cohesion in English: Routledge.
Jones, R. H. (2012). Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Routledge.
Klimova, B. F., & Hubackova, S. (2014). “Grammatical Cohesion in Abstracts”. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 116(0), 664-668. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.276
Morris, J., & Hirst, G. (1991). “Lexical cohesion is computed by thesaural relations as an indicator of the structure of the text”. Computational Linguistics, 17(1), 21-48.
Richardson, J. E. (2007). Analyzing Newspapers: An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis: Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke.