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This programme is about language analysis, and begins with a short drama sequence which is then textually analysed. Cohesion, in language analysis, is where one part of a text relates by containing... explicit signals to another part of the same text. The dialogue of the initial sequence is then analysed visually line by line to examine where cohesion occurs. Other categories of cohesion are also examined, for example substitution, ellipsis and collocation. Much of the work of Halliday and Hasan is drawn on in the programme. The programme concludes with a discussion between Victor Lee of the Open University, Gordon Wells of the University of Bristol and Mike Garman of the University of Southampton.
This programme is about language analysis, and begins with a short drama sequence which is then textually analysed. Cohesion, in language analysis, is where one part of a text relates by containing... explicit signals to another part of the same text. The dialogue of the initial sequence is then analysed visually line by line to examine where cohesion occurs. Other categories of cohesion are also examined, for example substitution, ellipsis and collocation. Much of the work of Halliday and Hasan is drawn on in the programme. The programme concludes with a discussion between Victor Lee of the Open University, Gordon Wells of the University of Bristol and Mike Garman of the University of Southampton.
| Module code and title: | E362, Cognitive development: language and thinking - birth to adolescence |
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| Item code: | E362; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 06-07-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:19 |
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| Producer: | Chris Cuthbertson |
| Contributors: | Mike Garman; Victor Lee; Gordon Wells |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Conjunction; Douglas Blackwell; Drama sequence; Ellipsis; Halliday; Hasan; Kate Coleridge; Language analysis; Lexical cohesion; Peter Pacey; Reference; Substitution |
| Footage description: | The programme opens with the actors playing a scene on a station platform. Two passengers have missed their connecting trains and take their problem to the station manager. The first passenger is irate and abusive, the second more reasonable. Most of the programme consists of Vic Lee analysing the text of the above dramatic incident to see what makes it hang together as a connected piece of dialogue. Throughout this main sequence sentences from the dialogue are displayed on the screen as they are analysed. Definitions of the terms text and cohesion are give, then Lee explains five kinds of cohesion in turn: conjunction, reference, substitution, ellipsis, lexical cohesion. The dialogue from sequence 1 is used to show examples of each of these sub divisions of cohesion. In a brief studio discussion Lee goes over his analysis with Mike Garman, of the University of Reading, and Gordon Wells, of Bristol University. They discuss the usefulness of Lee's categories of cohesion. |
| Production number: | FOUE012E |
| Videofinder number: | 4332 |
| Available to public: | no |
