Textual cohesion in the book " Bag in the hands of a traveler" by Yahya Hakki

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Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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This study aims to reveal the means of textual Cohesion in the book “A Bag in the Hand of a Traveler” by “Yahya Haqqi”; he used various elements of Cohesion, both grammatical and lexical, and this study followed the descriptive-analytical approach, which is based on describing the linguistic phenomenon in the book, analyzing the text units into sentences, structures and words, and eliciting their connotations, by applying the elements of Cohesion to different models of the book. One of the results of this study is that the Cohesion elements are available and varied in the writer, so he used the Collocation with its various elements of Antonymy, Incompatibility, part with each and an ordered series, so that the textual Cohesion and semantic continuity were achieved at the level of wards and at the level of sentences, and on the whole book, to express one idea that moved from the first article to the last one. This idea is the relationship between East and West, And the search for the reason for the progress of the West and its launch on the path of its civilization. It was recommended that researchers pay more attention to studying prose texts, especially articles as a textual study, focus on applied studies and analytical examples related to Text Grammar, and increase interest in developing encyclopedic dictionaries that specifically include Text Grammar terms.

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