Text linguistics and cohesion in Written Arabic

Abstract EN

The aim of this paper is to analyse an expository-type Arabic text within the framework of "cohesive ties", paying special attention to reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical cohesion and their subtypes.

This model approaches language as discourse and not as sentences in isolation.

This approach has been used to analyse a selected written Arabic text as an example of a frequently-used style in technical language, which manifests explicit representations and explicit rules for Arabic texts.

Some differences from English are manifested: personals are the main type of reference, and arc mainly attached to their head, while conjunctions like (wa); (and), and (fa.): (and/then) are also very widely used.

The main two types of lexical cohesion, namely: reiteration and collocation are also found and have a central role to play in achieving cohesion in this (ext.