Cohesive Roles of Adverbials in Newspaper Reports

Abstract

This bachelor paper deals with adverbials and their cohesive role in newspaper reports. The theoretical part defines the concept of cohesion and its main types. This part particularly focuses on adverbials, mainly on conjuncts or linking adverbials. Moreover, it focuses on newspapers reports, particularly on British broadsheets represented by two types - the Independent and the Guardian. In the practical part, knowledge from the theoretical part is applied to the analysis with regard to conjuncts, their position within a text, thein form and semantic role.