A study on the use of grammatical cohesion in the short story "All gold canyon" by Jack London from systemic funtional grammar perspective

• Main Author: Hồ, Phương Thảo
• Other Authors: Hoàng, Văn Vân
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: ĐHNN 2017
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/41214
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This study aims to find out grammatical cohesion in the story "All Gold Canyon" by Jack London basing on the theoretical framework by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The research findings show that grammatical cohesion is used in a very high rate to connect the text together. Furthermore, among different types of grammatical cohesive devices, reference and conjunction account for most of cohesion with 74% and 24% respectively, which shows that the text is highly cohesive. Substitution and ellipsis, in contrast, take up only 1% for each type. This may indicate that there are few conversations among characters. In other words, the imbalance use of cohesion helps depict the writing style of literary documents in general and of Jack London in particular.