An Inquiry into Connectives and Their Use in Written Discourse

dc.creator	Kamil Kurtul
dc.date	2012-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:26:30Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:26:30Z
dc.identifier	1305-578X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b205a389375c46379ffbc4da79c09871
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21626
dc.description	Problem Statement: To know a language means to be able to produce coherent verbal and written texts to convey one’s message to the addressee. Texture is a matter of meaning relations and this is what distinguishes a text from something that is not. The text should function as a unity with respect to its environment. An important aspect of discourse understanding and generation involves the recognition and processing of discourse relations and as such connective devices, also known as connectors, play a significant role in the formation and interpretation of the relations present in a text.Method: In the present study connectives both in Turkish and English have been analyzed in terms of their structural properties through the written works of two groups of students studying at Hacettepe University in Ankara. The analysis is based on the same principles as the Penn Discourse TreeBank, which lists connective devices into three categories as coordinating, subordinating conjunctions and sentence adverbials. So as to analyze the reasons behind the mistakes of the participants, a Grammaticality Judgement Test has been designed and implemented.Conclusion: The results indicate that there occurs L1 effect on both groups’ use of connectives in L2 regardless of their language backgrounds.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation	http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%208/No.1/110-131.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-578X
dc.source	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 110-131 (2012)
dc.subject	textlinguistics
dc.subject	coherence
dc.subject	connectors
dc.subject	connectives
dc.subject	grammaticality judgement test
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	An Inquiry into Connectives and Their Use in Written Discourse
dc.type	article