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Halliday And Hasan's Theory Of Cohesion

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I-Theoretical part:
1-scope of the study:
The purpose of this research paper is to shed light on the notion of cohesion which means that the use of repetition, transitional expressions, and other devices to guide the readers and show how the parts of a composition related to one other. In this research, the discussion also centers on media discourse which refers to interactions that take place through a broadcast platform, whether spoken or written. Furthermore, this research tackles cohesive ties in written media discourse through two political articles" Political analysts debate future of Gamal Mubarak" and" Violence has no room in democracy" from Al-Ahram weekly newspaper and The Guardian.
2- Research questions:
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This research looks at the concept of cohesion. For a number of years, research papers and teaching materials dealing with the role played by cohesion in the reading process have been produced at a starting rate. As the researcher points out the work of Halliday and Hasan, was the first systematic description of cohesion in English. In their work cohesion is described as, "a semantic one, it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the texts, and that define it as a text" (Halliday & Hasan, 1976, p. 10). Their definition of cohesion emphasizes the relationship between the meanings of linguistic units. It is basically the glue that holds a text together and makes the difference between unrelated set of sentences and a set of sentences forming a unified whole. Cohesion is a semantic one which is released through grammar and vocabulary to refer to relations of meaning that exists in the text. We can consider the grammatical and lexical elements cohesive when they interpreted in relation with other elements in the text (Tanskanen, 2006, chapter2).
Halliday and Hasan also define a concrete form as a tie; we need a term to refer to a single instance of cohesion, a term for one occurrence of a pair of cohesively related items. The links are "cohesive ties" or "cohesive devices". "The primary determinant of whether a set of sentences do or do not constitute a text depends on cohesive …show more content…

1-1-2 Antonyms:
In Essam El-Din's article, he uses different examples of antonyms such as the antonym between 'returned' in line (2) paragraph (2) and 'leave' in the last line paragraph (5). Essam El-Din also displays words such as 'after' in line (1) paragraph (2) and 'before' in line (2) paragraph (11). He uses words such as 'new' in line (2) paragraph (12) and 'old' in line (3) of the same paragraph. There is also antonym between 'lower' in line (3) paragraph (14) and 'upper' in line (4) of the same paragraph. He also uses antonym between "the release" in the title and 'arrested' in line (1) of the last paragraph.
On the other hand, Onochine in his article also uses a lot of antonyms. He uses words such as 'past' in line (3) paragraph (3) and 'now' in line (7) paragraph (3). There is also antonym between 'go' in line (5) paragraph (3) and 'coming' in the last line of the last paragraph. Another example, he uses 'before' in line (7) paragraph (3) and 'after' in line (8) paragraph (4). Moreover, there is antonym between 'accepted' in line (9) paragraph (4) and 'rejected' in the last line the same

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