Lexical cohesion refers to the perceived unity of text achieved by the author’s usage of words with related meanings[1]. Data from an experiment with 22 readers aimed at eliciting lexical cohesive patterns they see in 10 texts [2, 3] is used to shed light on a number of theoretical and applied aspects of the phenomenon: which items in the text carry the cohesive load; what are the appropriate d...

this study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. the analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) iranian undergraduates of english. this prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writ...

This study aims to understand certain linguistic and semantic resources for the text construction, namely the constructs of cohesion, coherence. The analysis of cohesive ties was conducted on the writing samples of 40 subjects (20 most coherent and 20 least coherent) Iranian undergraduates of English. This prompted us to identify the dominant types of cohesive devices used in most coherent writ...

body linguistic in general and cohesion in particular have been seriously explored by many linguists since the middle of 20th century so that in fact it was considered as the essential basis for discourse analysis at next years. by looking at the subjects that were purposed in this new branch of linguistics and comparing it with linguistic researches among muslims, we may encounter some evidenc...

This paper describes an approach to the analysis of lexical cohesion using WordNet. The approach automatically annotates texts with potential cohesive ties, and supports various thesaurus based and text based search facilities as well as different views on the annotated texts. The purpose is to be able to investigate large amounts of text in order to get a clearer idea to what extent semantic r...

The Role of Lexical Properties and Cohesive Devices in Text Integration and Their Effect on Human Ratings of Speaking Proficiency Scott Crossley, Amanda Clevinger & YouJin Kim To cite this article: Scott Crossley, Amanda Clevinger & YouJin Kim (2014) The Role of Lexical Properties and Cohesive Devices in Text Integration and Their Effect on Human Ratings of Speaking Proficiency, Language Assess...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...

Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the relationship between cohesive readability of expository texts and reading comprehension in EFL students with different proficiency levels. One hundred students formed the participant of this study. They were undergraduate students majoring in English at University of Isfahan. To collect the relevant data, participants were divide...