SThis paper will analyse an introduction to a research article using three approaches to discourseanalysis: Swales’ (1990) Genre Analysis, Hoey’s (1991) bonding theory and Mann and Thompson’s(1986) rhetorical structure theory. Swales looks for writer strategies; Hoey focuses on collocation,while Mann and Thompson look for relations among propositions. However, all three produce<...

the principle theoretical basis of this article is the concept of &apos;city text&apos; and the textuality standards. the article explores city as a text and takes the textuality standards into consideration for analyzing the city. text is one of the main elements that play a significant role in communication. people communicating by language do not do so simply by means of individual words or ...

Textuality makes a sequence of sentences communicative English written text. It, nonetheless, hardly becomes major theme foreign language learning in the Indonesian Writing Classes/context nowadays. This study, therefore, aimed at diagnosing “incorrect/missing uses seven elements textuality students’ cause and effect essay. Qualitatively, Politeknik Negeri Padang was locus study. The 2nd-year E...

This paper is based on the general (yet disputable) assumption that the theoretical debate of literature in digital networks has shifted, just as the poetic practices it is shaped after, from perceiving computer data as an extension and transgression of textuality (as manifest in such notions as “hypertext”, “hyperfiction”, “hyper-/ multimedia”) towards paying attention to the very codedness – ...

Metaphor is, in essence, mapping from the target domain to the source domain; from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. When this happens, the entailments of metaphors as well as the contextual information will be integrated into texts and hence form coherent texts. Thus, it is accessible for us to explore discourse cohesion and coherence from the point view of conceptual m...