Grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in arabic

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[40] al-kalima:t-i ’ila: ’af‘a:l-in wa l-wu‘u:d-a ’ila: Haqa:’aq ‫الكلمات الى افعال والوعود الى حقائق‬ The-words into actions and the-promises into realities b. Paraphrase type two. Al-Jubouri defines this type as “an action or event which is described from two opposite perspective.” [41] \la: qi:mat-a li-Hizb-in wa huw-a fawq-a l-kara:si,/( \wa ’amma: qi:matu-hu l-Haqi:qi:yat-u fataZhar- u ‘indama: yanqudu l-sulTa:n-a/ ‫ل قيمة لحزب وهو فوق الكراسي واما قيمته الحقيقية فتظهر عندما ينقد السلطان‬ \no value to-party as it in the-powerseats,/ and as-for value-his, thetrue appears when criticizes the-ruler/ (Al-Jubouri, 1983: 110) 4.

CONCLUSION

The Arabic text is highly cohesive within the sentence boundaries and across it. Unites of meaning belong to a bigger unite which is the text. Lexical cohesion with its different types plays a great role in cohesion in Arabic text. These devices and the links they establish between the unites of meaning make the texture of the text. The components of reference in written Arabic text were discussed separately and one main reference item in written Arabic, as discussed, is the personals: personal pronouns, relative, and demonstrative pronouns. Detached pronouns are not frequent in written Arabic discourse, like (ana, ‫انا‬, anta, ‫انت‬,… etc).They are used mainly for special stylistic purpose, like emphases. Pronouns attached to the verbs which inflect for number and gender are more frequent. Conjunctions are used in the text, and the simplest conjunction in Arabic is (wa): (and). However (wa) does not have the same structural role as English (and). (wa) rather related and unifies those unites of the meaning which compose the text. The most widely-used cohesive relation is lexical cohesion and its frequently used in written text. Repetition, as one instance, is used in Arabic discourse on a wide scale and plays a considerable role in the sense that it links one unit of meaning to a previous one. Occurrences of super ordinates of reiteration: the same noun, synonymy, near synonymy or general words are all very frequent but that are still found in Arabic texts. Bibliography 20


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