Cohesive devices of Administrative Texts in Kurdish Language

Abstract

This research paper is entitled ‘’ Cohesive devices of Administrative Texts in Kurdish Language’’. In this paper, the approach of descriptive analysis is followed and cohesion and its types in terms of the model of systematic functional grammar proposed by Halliday are presented. Afterwards, the types of grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions) and lexical cohesion (repetition, synonyms, antonyms, collocations…etc.) are discussed. For the data collection, administrative texts are considered as a type of the texts written in the Kurmanji dialect of central Kurdish which directly expresses the change of language ideology for the written administrative text and realizes the language textual function. In this way, the types of cohesive devices of administrative texts are analysed and it is demonstrated that these cohesive devices have had a role in cohesion and coherence of the administrative texts.