Analysis Of Dina Ezzat's 'An Elusive Dream'

II. Application part
1- Lexical cohesion in the given data:
1.1 Repetition There is a repetition of the word "activist" In "An elusive dream" in paragraph 1 line 2, paragraph 2 line 2, paragraph 5 line 1, paragraph 16 line 1, and paragraph 17 line 1, repetition of the verb "shot" in paragraph 1 line 1 and paragraph 6 line 1, repetition of the word "protestor" in paragraph 1 line 3 and paragraph 2 line 3, repetition of word "Socialist" in paragraph 2 line 1 and paragraph 13 line 1, and "Interior" in paragraph 7 line 1 and paragraph 12 line 3. There is also a repetition of the word "prisoners" in "Freedom granted" in paragraph 1 line 1, paragraph 5 line 2, paragraph 7 lines 1&3 and paragraph 9 line 1, "media" in paragraph 3 line 3 and paragraph 4 line1,
Conclusion:
1- significance of data: in Dina Ezzat's article " An elusive dream ", she used lexical cohesion greatly to try to make the reader get the meaning of the article, just like repetition, she used these words many times because of their importance to strengthen the meaning, synonymy, antonymy, meronymy, and collocation. She also used grammatical cohesion because of it's importance to make us understand as conjunction to link between sentences and to complete the meaning ,ellipsis ,substitution and reference. In Ahmed Morsy's article " Freedom granted " he used lexical cohesion widely to have our attention as in repetition in synonymy,antonymy, collocation.he also used grammatical cohesion ellipsis, conjunction,and reference. In both articles they used lexical cohesion with the same amounts but not grammatical cohesion as in Dina Ezzat's article, she used more references than Ahmed Morsy's and Morsey didn't use any