
Cohesive Relations across English Varieties
a systemic functional linguistics perspectiveBy Bruna Almeida-BüttnerLength2h 58m
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This thesis reports an analysis of patterns in cohesive relations from two complementary perspectives: regional and functional. Generally, this study aims to assess which linguistic resources are used to express cohesion across four varieties of English (British English, Irish English, Philippine English, and Eastern African English) and two registers: conversation and academic writing. More specifically, this thesis tests, first, if there are differences in proportions of lexical cohesion and co-reference between those languages and, second, if there are differences in proportions of lexical cohesion and co-reference between the registers.
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Publish dateMay 11, 2023
LanguagePortuguese
Table of contents
1Introduction
21. INTRODUCTION
32. PREVIOUS RESEARCH
42.1 ENGLISH VARIETIES
52.2 COHESIVE DEVICES ACROSS VARIETIES
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63. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
73.1 SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS – BASIC CONCEPTS
83.1.1 THE CONCEPT OF TIE
93.1.2 THE CONCEPT OF COHESION
103.2 CO-REFERENCE
113.2.1 PERSONAL CO-REFERENCE
123.2.2 DEMONSTRATIVE CO-REFERENCE
133.3 ENDOPHORIC AND EXOPHORIC REFERENCE
143.4 LEXICAL COHESION
153.4.1 ELABORATING RELATIONS: REPETITION, SYNONYMY, AND HYPONYMY
163.4.2 EXTENDING RELATIONS: MERONYMY
174. RESEARCH DESIGN
184.1 CORPUS AND DATA
194.2 RESEARCH CORPUS AND COMPILATION CRITERIA
204.3 ANNOTATION
214.4 STATISTICAL TESTS AND ANALYSIS
225. RESULTS
235.1 COMPARISON OF VARIETIES
245.2 COMPARISON OF REGISTERS
255.3 COHESIVE RELATIONS WITHIN THE VARIETIES
266. DISCUSSION
277. CONCLUSIONS
28APPENDIX A
29APPENDIX B