Disunity in Cohesion: How Purpose Affects Methods and Results When AnalyzingLexical Cohesion
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Lexical Cohesion is a commonly studied linguistic feature as it is easily identified from the surface of a text. However, the purposes for studying lexical cohesion are varied, and each purpose requires different methods. This study analyzes two short movie review texts for four different research purposes using lexical cohesion: text evaluation, text segmentation, text summarization, and text criticism. The analysis shows that these four different purposes produce very different results concerning the lexical cohesion of the two texts, suggesting that the apparently straightforward construct of lexical cohesion is actually complex.
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