Document Type : Conference Paper
Abstract
Due to the linkage between literature and linguistics in general. This study has set itself the task of the linguistic analysis of two literary texts. Cohesion, being one of the linguistic means for the construction of texts, is examined hereby in two short stories for two famous writers. In this respect, Edgar Allan Poe’s and Charles Dickens’ short stories are chosen to be analysed along with answering the following questions: (1)What is meant by cohesion? (2) What are the types of cohesion? (3) How can texts be constructed cohesively? (4) Which cohesive device is the mostly used and which is the least frequently used in the stories selected? (5) What are the differences and similarities of the cohesive devices used in these two stories? Based on these questions, the following aims are to be achieved; (1) defining cohesion, (2) enumerating the types of cohesion, (3) investigating the way through which texts and be constructed cohesively, (4) identifying the type(s) of cohesive devices that is/are the most frequently used and least frequently used in the stories selected, (5) detecting the differences and similarities between these two stories in relation to the cohesive devices used. The model of analysis adopted is made up of the cohesive devices types and sub-types. The analysis reveals, as a conclusion, the prevailation of grammatical cohesive devices in comparison to the lexical cohesive devices used in both of the selected stories.
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