persuasive texts cohesion

We investigate the interaction between coherence and lexical cohesion in expository and persuasive texts using seven encyclopedia texts and seven fundraising letters. We describe genre structure in terms of genre-specific moves and coherence structure with Rhetorical Structure Theory. For lexical cohesion, we identify repetitions, systematic semantic relations and collocations across discourse ...

1 Introduction. The interplay of coherence and cohesion is an intensely studied, but still not fully understood issue in discourse organization. Both are known to vary with genre (see, e.g ...

2. The Concept of Cohesion 2.1 Text and Texture In linguistics, any spoken or written discourse that forms a unified whole is referred to as a text. A text is not a grammatical unit, but rather a semantic unit of language, i.e. a unit of meaning, not of form. Texture is what provides the text with unity and distinguishes it from a non-text.

In this study the authors divided metadiscourse into textual metadiscourse (text markers and interpretive markers) and interpersonal metadiscourse (hedges, certainty markers, attributors, attitude markers, and commentary).

The results showed that the high cohesion text was more persuasive than the low cohesion text. Moreover, attitude after reading but not text cohesion predicted later recall of the message arguments. The results show that global text cohesion increases text’s persuasive power and that readers who form a positive attitude have better memory of ...

Global and text cohesion cues tend to be more implicit than local cohesion cues. Coherence, on the other hand, is the reader’s ability to comprehend the given text. The reader’s grasp of the text can be influenced by cohesion cues and by non-linguistic factors including the reader’s background knowledge and reading skills.

9 Punctuation The use of correct and appropriate punctuation to aid the reading of the text 10 Spelling The accuracy of spelling and the difficulty of the words used The following table shows the range of score points for each criterion: Audience Text structure Ideas Persuasive devices Vocabulary Cohesion Paragraphing Sentence structure

In [1] authors investigate the hypothesis that lexical cohesion is closely aligned with coherence structure in thematically organized (expository) texts, but less so in texts with a predominantly ...

It is shown that coherence is more closely aligned with lexical cohesion in the expository texts than in the persuasive texts. This paper reports preliminary results. from an ongoing project investigating the alignment between coherence structure and lexical cohesion in thematically organized expository texts (encyclopedia entries) and intentionally structured persuasive texts (fundraising ...

2007. TLDR. A common core of the lexical cohesion phenomenon is identified, using statistical analysis of agreement patterns and a validation experiment, and procedures for revealing and analyzing sub-group patterns of agreement described here may be applied to data collected in other studies of comparable size. Expand.