Analysis of lexical Chains and Coherence in a Children's and News Story

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14482/zp.04.121.33

Keywords:

Lexical Chains, Cohesion, Synonymy, Antonymy, Coherence, Hyponymy, Repetition.

Abstract

This artide aims to find lexical chains in two texts, a children's and news story, and see how they make for coherence. In the study chains were selected under the criterion that their members were semantically related by Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy, Meronymy and Repetition. Under this analysis framework, it was found coherence to be a somewhat flawed in parts of both texts. This would attest to the fact that the presence of lexical chains does not always make texts coherent. Other interesting findings show reliance of the texts on either lexical or grammatical references.

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Author Biography

  • Marcelillo Torrecilla, Universidad del Norte, Universidad del Norte, Universidad del Norte

    Magister University of Liverpool, Profesor Universidad Del Norte y Universidad del Atlántico

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Published

2022-01-28

Issue

No. 4 (2003)

Section

Artículo de investigación

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