A Corpus-Based Study of Conjunctive Cohesion in Pakistani English Newspapers

Abstract

This corpus-based study in the perspective of Pakistani English analyzed the use of conjunctive cohesive linkages as defined and categorized by Halliday and Hasan (1976) in the columns/articles published in the opinion section of Pakistani English Newspapers in the month of November 2022. A corpus of 141 columns of DAWN and The Express Tribune was developed and analyzed using the corpus software AntConc (4.1.4). The study revealed higher frequencies of conjunctive adjuncts of extension and enhancement types. Conjunctions of additive, causal and adversative sub-categories are found to be most favoured by the columnists of both Pakistani English newspapers. The tendency of usage is same among the most frequently used conjunctions; however, there are some differences in the choice of least used conjunctions between the writers of DAWN and The Express Tribune.