This post includes a description of cohesive devices: conjunctions in discourse including subordinating conjunctions, additive conjunctions, adversative conjunctions, causal conjunctions, and temporal conjunctions.
A conjunction is an element of Grammatical Cohesion in Discourse.
Let’s have a look at Cohesive Devices: Conjunctions in Discourse:
What is a Conjunction?
Conjunctions are linking devices between sentences or clauses in a text.
Unlike other grammatical devices, conjunctions express the ‘logical-semantic’ relation between sentences rather than between words and structures (Halliday & Hasan, 1976).
In other words, they structure the text in a certain logical order that is meaningful to the reader or listener.
Types of Conjunctions
Conjunctions are divided into four types, namely additive, adversative, causal, and temporal.
Additive conjunctions
These conjunctions connect units that share a semantic similarity.
Examples of additive conjunctions are, and, likewise, furthermore, in addition, etc.
Adversative conjunctions
These types of conjunctions are used to express contrasting results or opinions.
Examples of these types of conjunctions are such as, but, however, in contrast, whereas, etc.
Causal conjunctions
These conjunctions introduce results, reasons, or purposes.
Examples of such conjunctions are items such as, so, thus, therefore, because, etc.
Temporal conjunctions
These express the time order of events
Examples include finally, then, soon, at the same time, etc.
