Lecture 11: Cohesion and thematic development.

7 Abril 2020, 14:00 • Carlos Gouveia

The expression of textual meaning and the construction of mode in Register. Cohesion and Thematic development. Types of cohesion. Thematic structures and thematic development. Under the Covid-19 contingency plan, the students watched five small video-lessons: Cohesion, a video-lesson (8:10) by Carlos A. M. Gouveia (https://youtu.be/pfE5RnlB9xo); Cohesion with Cohesive Devices, a video-lesson (7:36) from the CEAL ELSS VETs @ Lingnan University (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JEAB6gmfhU); An Introduction to Cohesion in Academic Writing, a video-lesson (8:01) with John Kotnarowski (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TScPcKfQ9ds); Hedging in Academic Writing, a video-lesson (15:03) with John Kotnarowski (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_gM_GNU0Rw); Theme and Rheme, an animated video (2:11) by Timur Shams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAbRGJQyKTQ).

The remaining of the lecture was on Zoom discussing the videos and the information on them.