M.A. Graduate in Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Central Branch
Abstract
Speakers of a language, intuitively, are able to distinguish text [any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length] as a unified whole from a disconnected sequence of sentences. Texture is what distinguishes a text from non- text, and texture is provided by the cohesive relations. Cohesion occurs where the interpretation of some elements in the discourse is dependent on that of another. halliday and hassan [1976] divided cohesive relations to three general types :grammatical, lexical and conjunctions. They believe that any change in context leads to changing cohesive relations. The aim of this study is comparing children and adults' stories to determine their similarities and differences regarding the utilization of different types of lexical cohesive devices[reiteration and collocation].In other words, we expect that a writer ,regarding his/her addressee [children or adult] uses different kinds of cohesive relations. Main conclusions attained from this comparison reveal that [i]the division made by halliday and hassan[1976] regarding lexical cohesion in English is comparable with lexical cohesion in Persian.[ii]The story/novel writers either for children or adults utilize different means of lexical cohesion to create text cohesion.
