A linguistic study of transition adverbials with reference to Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Abstract EN

The most convincing ideas in the world, are expressed in the most beautiful sentences, will move no one unless these ideas are properly connected.Unless readers can move easily from one thought to another.

Linking adverbials play a very important role in discourse cohesion.

They are viewed as significant means of cohesion in English whether in spoken or written discourse.

The focus of this study rests on the use of the semantic categories of linking adverbials which explicitly mark textual cohesion on a varying length (e.

g.

clause, sentence, and paragraph) .

The researcher will mainly focus on the transition category as one of the most important of the semantic categories of linking adverbials that may hold between parts of discourse .