Cohesion Without the ‘Connectives’: Examples from Igbo

Abstract

Cohesion is the grammatical and/or lexical relationship between the different elements of a text. This may be the relationship between different sentences or between different parts of a sentence (Richards et al, 86). Evident here is that the connectives, also referred to as conjunctions (Richards et al op cit: 108), are cohesive devices. However, there are cases of cohesion which are devoid of the connectives. This paper exemplifies the cases using Igbo poetry.