THE LINKING ROLE OF SOME FORMAL COHESIVE DEVICES IN STATE ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS

Abstract

Administrative documents belong to a type of texts which is highly ideological, closely structured and clearly written with weighty arguments. Formal cohesion includes language devices that link contents together. Among formal cohesive devices, repetition, conjunction and association show high effectiveness in argumentative force and play a major role in textual cohesion. The repetition emphasizes and reiterates words, expressions and key syntactic structures that represent the subject of a passage. The conjunction is aimed at extending clauses and adding necessary elements to create balance and harmony among elements in a clause and among clauses in a sentence. Administrative documents are also typically characterized by inclusive and quantitative associations, which present arguments in an interpretive way: giving an overview first and then analyzing each aspect and each detail.

Formal cohesion in state administrative documents at the Institute of Politics – Administration in Region III show both the characteristics of administrative documents in general and distinct features of text contents in party offices at an institute in particular.