Open AccessConjunctions as Cohesive Devices in Some Selected Animated Movies: A Discourse Analysis
Author(s) -
Ghusoon K. Faraj
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in social sciences and humanities(online)/international journal of research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-4671
pISSN - 2249-4642
DOI - 10.37648/ijrssh.v11i03.016
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , point (geometry) , feature (linguistics) , linguistics , computer science , psychology , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , psychotherapist
Animated movies are one type of movies that are presented for children and they areclassified according to their age. G- Rate movies, for example, are suitable for pre-schoolage, PG- Rate movies are for school age and P- Rate movies are for teenagers. These moviesare created by computer and shown as a series of different movements of people, animals andobjects.The use of conjunctions in children's movies is important and help children in connectingdifferent units and clarifying the meaning of the text, and thus, they are considered as one ofthe important cohesive devices in making unity. The present study aims at finding out thetypes of conjunctions and investigating the most dominant conjuncts in four selectedanimated movies. These movies are from two different rates, G and PG movies. G- Ratemovies include 'The Little Mermaid' and ' Princess'; and PG-Rate movies are' Moana' and'Frozen'. Many studies, like, (Clark, 1973, Bloom, 1980, Vygotsky, 1962 and etc…) have observedthat the use of connectives is an important point of developing children's cohesive skills andthey use conjunctions, for example, and, because, and etc.…., before 6 years but after this agethe semantic meaning and production of conjunctions are obvious (Joseph and etal. 1996:160-161).According to these studies, the researcher hypothesizes that conjunctions are one of theimportant linguistic feature to be investigated and they are used more in PG-rate movies thanin G- rate because this rate is presented for school-age and in this period children's languageis developed and the use of conjunctions is more than in the period of pre-school.Furthermore, in this period children tend to connect ides and like to ask a lot of questions toget more information about different topics, but in pre-school age, children tend to use simplelanguage and they focus on one idea. So, the use of conjunctions in G-rate movies will makethe movie in somehow difficult. Therefore, literary works are crea