Discourse analysis- cohesion in English (cohesive devices)

Task To make sure that we fully understand what role cohesion plays in a piece of discourse, find any book of your choice, read just one chapter and explain why you think the paragraph is cohesive referring to points discussed in this lesson. Further reading A Bibliography of Coherence and Cohesion by Wolfram Bublitz at Universität Augsburg References Halliday, M.A.K; and Ruqayia Hasan (1976): Cohesion in English. London: Longman. Hoey, Michael (1991): Patterns of Lexis in Text. Oxford: OUP. Kunz, K. & Steiner, E. Towards a comparison of cohesion in English and German — concepts, systemic contrasts and a corpus architecture for investigating contrasts and contact, in: Taboada, Maite, Suárez, Susana Doval and González Álvarez, Elsa. Forthcoming. Contrastive Discourse Analysis. Functional and Corpus Perspectives. London: Equinox. disclaimer Slides extracted from www.slideshare.com