LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Grammatical Cohesion in the Speeches of His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan

Hatmal O.E. Al Khalidy, Ph.D. Candidate
L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

Abstract

In full sense of the word the speeches of his majesty, King Abdullah II are not normal speeches. They are eloquent and efficient speeches because the ideas were linked to each other smoothly and they were presented systematically in the speech.

In any discourse, we have two types of cohesion, they are:1) lexical cohesion and 2) grammatical cohesion .The lexical cohesion gives the way in which lexical items are connected and the relation between them namely synonyms, antonyms, meronymy, hyponymy and word repetition. The grammatical cohesion deals with the relations such as substitution, reference, ellipsis, conjunction, etc.

In this article the attempt is made to study the grammatical cohesion of the speeches of the King to study the grammatical cohesion, two of the speeches from each category such as local speeches in Jordan, national speeches in any Arab countries and international speeches anywhere in the world are analyzed. The investigator aims to give a statistical analysis of six selected speeches.

Key words: grammatical cohesion, substitution, ellipsis, reference and Conjunction.

1. Introduction

Communication is a process of sending or receiving information, ideas from one person to another. It concerns with the nature of meaning and its integrity through the process of dissemination and reception of a message. It is the most important device of transferring information from one entity to another by using verbal or non-verbal modes .Verbal communication continues to be the most important type of interaction with other people. It is another type of communication, which does not involve words. Most of the people think that nonverbal speech implies only to facial gesture, but nonverbal communication includes in vocal sounds that are not words such as grunts, sights, whimpers, etc.

In fact, politicians use the two types of communications (verbal and nonverbal modes) while delivering their speeches in order to attract or persuade the audience.

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Hatmal Odeh Eid Bani Khaled
Research Scholar (Ph.D.)
Dep artment of Linguistics
University of Mysore
Manasagangothri
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka,India
hatmal88@yahoo.com

L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Manasagangothri
Mysore 570 006
Karnataka
India
ramamoorthyciil@gmail.com
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