
COHESIVE TIES IN CARL SAGAN’s ‘PALE BLUE DOT’
Author(s) -
L. P. Kalytiuk
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
fìlologìčnì studìï
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2491
pISSN - 2311-2425
DOI - 10.28925/2311-2425.2019.13.7
Subject(s) - linguistics , repetition (rhetorical device) , function (biology) , computer science , philosophy , biology , evolutionary biology
The article focuses on a study of cohesive ties in Modern English. The investigation is based on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ (1994). The priority is given to highlighting the types of reiteration as main means of constructing the said text. We maintain that the specific feature of Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ is in intensive usage of lexical cohesive ties. The lexical cohesive ties in the text are of oppositeness, antonymy, synonymy. Collocations function as ‘topic holders’ and distant repetition conveys leitmotif ideas. Grammatical cohesive ties are used sparingly in places of semantic tension of the text.