LEXICAL COHESION IN EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE: EXPLORING APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH ARTICLES’ ABSTRACTS”OF URUN
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https://doi.org/10.53555/1twrzn41Keywords:
Abstracts, Applied Linguistics, Coherence, Academic Discourse, Genre, Lexical CohesionAbstract
The publication of Halliday and Hasan (1976) appealed to the concept of cohesion in writings among discourse analysts. Depiction on this vital study, scholars have been exploring cohesion in both monologic and dialogic discourses of diverse languages (Taboada, 2004; Angermeyer, 2002), genres (Tanskanen, 2006; Hoey, 2005), and registers (Hasan, 1984; Hoey, 1991). The emphasis of this study was to scrutinise lexical cohesion in abstracts of research articles from Applied Linguistics. The study intended to (1) identify the sorts and frequencies of lexical ties employed in the writing of the Applied Linguistics research articles abstracts and (2) scrutinise how the lexical ties applied in the writing of the Applied Linguistics research articles' abstracts donate to the coherence of the abstracts. The research method was quantitative and qualitative, and the abstracts of 50 research articles from Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition were experimented with. The researcher culled the information from online databases and had 8,690 words. The study employed Halliday and Hasan's (1976) lexical cohesion framework. The analysis exposed 802 lexical ties intersententially, where Repetition (52%) was the most preeminent, followed by Collocation (15%) and hyponymy (10.9%). The data also established that lexical cohesion underwrites enormously in the propositional expansion of all the move constructions typical of research article abstract as a genre used in Applied Linguistics. To achieve that, the researcher considered the prerequisite for studies of this nature across chastisements.
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