PECULIARITIES OF WRITTEN DISCOURSE

TRACING THE PATTERNS.
If a speaker or learner of English hears or reads a passage of the language which is more than one sentence in length, he or she can normally decide without difficulty whether it forms a unified whole or is just a collection of unrelated sentences. Cohesion (or its absence) is what makes the difference between the two.
“Cohesion is what gives the text texture” (Halliday and Hasan)

Lexical Cohesion.
One of the strategies one uses is the understanding of words and phrases in the English language – the vocabulary system. In particular, one uses the awareness of relationships between words: this is called lexical cohesion. There are many different kinds of relationships that could be involved:
· Direct repetition;
· Synonyms, or near-synonyms (use of words with similar meaning);
· Superordination (hyponymy, where one word encompasses another in meaning);
· Antonyms;
· Specific – general meaning (words referring to the same t...