Cohesion in English

by M. A. K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan

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Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between sentences. Reference from one to the other, repetition of word meanings, the conjunctive force of but, show more so, then and the like are considered. Further, it describes a method for analysing and coding sentences, w show less

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M. A. K. Halliday was born in Yorkshire in 1925. He was trained in Chinese for war service with the British Army; studied in China, taught Chinese in Britain for a number of years, then moved into linguistics, becoming in 1965 Professor of General Linguistics at University College London. In 1975 he was appointed Foundation Professor of show more Linguistics at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement Jonathan Webster received his PhD in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently Acting Head, Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, and Associate Dean (Research and Administration), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the City University of Hong Kong show less
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425LanguageEnglish & Old English languagesGrammar of standard English
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PE1421 .H34Language and LiteratureEnglish languageEnglishModern English
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