Discourse analysis - Chapter 3: Cohesion in english discourse

t of the doubt.
“They sat and sipped at it, and after a time Odell said’
‘You've never seen the like of meanness I have.”
Conclusive relations
In the end the decision of which one to go with is yours and depends entirely upon your criteria: High quality or low price.
She shrouded herself, puffing and snorting, in a cloud of steam at the stove, and eventually extracted a frying-pan full of potatoes that hissed
In conclusion, the general observed that his wife took as great an interest in the prince as though he were her own son; and that she had commenced to be especially affectionate towards Aglaya was a self-evident fact
He said something vague about his forgetting to warn me, and asked me briefly when I left the house and what I had seen.
In short, each one exhibited some favorite article, and all appeared in their best, both men and women; while the ground-works in dress, in either sex, were the coarse fabrics manufactured within their own dwellings.
So I sat quietly down, and began to sum up my profits on the corsages.
The outcome of it was that von Horn finally decided to make an attempt to follow the trail of the creature that the woman had seen, and with this plan in view persuaded Muda Saffir to arrange with the chief of the long-house at which they then were to furnish him with trackers and an escort of warriors, promising them some splendid heads should they be successful in overhauling Bulan and his pack
“If we are not taken off with the sword, we are like to march off with an ague in this mud basket; and to conclude with a very bad pun, to the ear rather than to the eye, better martially than marsh-ally: ” the situation of Missolonghi is not unknown to you
There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.
So, tell me, do you find him attractive?' 
'In a word - no.'
Causal
Causal relations
It was committed in the presence of slaves, and they of course could neither institute a suit, nor testify against him; and thus the guilty perpetrator of one of the bloodiest and most foul murders goes unwhipped of justice, and uncensured by the community in which he lives.
Hence it is that history furnishes us with so many mortifying examples of the prevalency of foreign corruption in republican governments.
They replied: You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we on the contrary bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken, and escape.
Accordingly I entered and whilst the rest of the party were devouring green tea and buttered toast, we feasted ourselves in a more refined and sentimental Manner by a confidential Conversation
They were again obliged, therefore, to beat down a path for their horses, sometimes travelling on the icy surface of the stream.
But where this unity has been broken as much as in Switzerland, the abstract nature of religion—which because of this abstract quality occupies a definite position in relation to all other interests—brings about immediately very characteristic patterns of group-affiliation.
It was for this reason that Teoth was concerned that conveyance of this special captive warrior to peaceful Omaphil did not seem to greatly trouble his fellows.
Yet so tender was Sam's conscience, that he had frequent searchings of heart, afterward, on account of this profanation of sacred hours, and indulged in floods of longwinded penitence.
If [this] law be true, it follows that the natural series of affinities will also represent the order in which the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin .
It provides a republican organization, proscribes under the name of prerogative the exercise of all powers undefined by the laws; places on this basis the whole system of our laws; and, by consolidating them together, chuses that they shall be left to stand or fall together, never providing for any circumstances, nor admitting that such could arise, wherein either should be suspended, no, not for a moment.
It would be presumptous of me to pick out a single thing that history will identify as a result of this mission.
She was esteemed a match for the greatest peer in the realm, but, in her early years, she suffered her heart to be engaged by a young gentleman, and in consequence of this attachment, rejected offers made to her by persons of quality, seconded by the sollicitations of her uncle.
Now to this Psalm is prefixed a title arising out of an historical event; but before the event is described we are instructed as to the scope, time and application of the incidents underlying it.
There was a fireplace, a piano, and there, in a wood-paneled alcove that looked like it was designed exclusively for this purpose and maybe it was, sat the eighteen-foot Christmas tree.
Guderian claims that with this in mind he gave the orders for an advance toward Dorogobuzh as early as 21st July.
It was with this intention that he wrote the “Elements of Drawing "in 1856, supplemented by the “Elements of Perspective” in 1859; the illustrations for the book were characteristic sketches by the author, beautifully cut by his pupil, W.H. H.oper, who was one of a band of engravers and copyists formed by these classes at the Working Men's College.
There is the sprinkling of holy water, confession to a priest, penances, in fasting and some other abstinences, that are supposed to be of wonderful virtue to this end and purpose
Reversed causal relations
“On his second day in office, President Obama repudiated George W. Bush’s obsessive and destructive secrecy by ordering his government to obey the Freedom of Information Act. He said it should not withhold documents because they are embarrassing, or reveal failures and errors, or because of speculative or abstract fears.
She kissed me, and still keeping me at her side (where I was well contented to stand, for I derived a child's pleasure from the contemplation of her face, her dress, her one or two ornaments, her white forehead, her clustered and shining curls, and beaming dark eyes), she proceeded to address Helen Burns.
Conditional relations
Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed claque, and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power
And I could feel him swelling inside me, surging up out of the Dexter-dark corners of my lizard brain, a rising and swelling that could only end one way and that being the case it rather had to be with this one
Of course, more and more of our media are digital in some way today so this is another reason to shy away from digital literacy as a term otherwise it could also cover TV, Radio and programming!
II/ Lexical cohesive devices
Reiteration 
Repeptition 
Algy met a bear. The bear was bulgy.
He fumbled for the keys in the dark, finally managed to open the door.  He shuffled through the hallway, switched on the lights, and in his drunken haze, fumbled with his coat buttons.
His dark ways, his dark thoughts; soulless and barren and as dark as the swirling ocean beneath him..
He was slave to their ways, slave to the demon colonel; slave to everything he had known...
She was soft against his touch, soft like the silken threads he had slipped from her body, soft like the gentle murmur of summer.
I told you what would happen, I told you, and you chose not to listen.  I told you and you refrained.
Inside the ocean
I see fish.
Inside the waves
I hear a splash.
Inside the water
I felt a fish.
It seems so big,
as big as a whale.
It has to be,
But then I see,
It's a tuna fish.
Synonymy
 I heard a sound, but I couldn’t figure out where that noise came from
Seven blackbirds began to sing in the morning. These birds were singing beautifully.
Tom commented that Sally was very pretty and Mike agreed that Sally was very attractive.
You could try reversing the car up the slope. The incline isn’t all that steep 
6 p.m. I range a taxi, but because of the traffic the cab arrived later and I missed my flight.
Antonymy
You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Some have been thought to be brave because they were afraid to run away
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
They left London on the 6 o’clock train. Having arrived at Manchester, they took a taxi to the hotel.
Superordinate and Meronymy
Carrots is a taxonomic concept; it stands for a kind of thing. But vegetable does not stand for a kind of thing; it is impossible to draw a vegetable of some unspecified type because the concept vegetable is not based on similarity and includes no perceptual components...
This car is the best vehicle for a family of six.
General word
A: Did you try the steamed buns? 
B: Yes; I didn’t like the things much.
What shall I do with all this crockery? 
Leave the stuff there, someone’ll come and put it any way
Collocation
After giving Mark a lift to the airport, Cathy made her way at home. What an exciting life her leg! At times Cathy felt desperately jealous of him. She spent her time doing litter more than taking care of him and the children. Now her sister was getting divorced and would doubtless be making demands on her too. Cathy had promised to give her sister a call as soon as she got home but she decided to run herself a bath first. She had a sharp pain in her side and hoped that a hot bath might ease the pain.
I must find a way to help him
I learnt the hard way that Jack can’t be trusted
I’ve tried every possible way to get him to change his mind