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1. The following passage is taken from Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Identify and discuss the linguistic devices that make it coherent and cohesive. Recall that cohesion comprises a varied set of syntactic, referential and lexical devices.

I have a dream that one day the State of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed in a situation where little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands and little white boys and little white girls will walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low.

1 I have a dream that one day the State of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the 2 words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed in a situation 3 4 5 6

where little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands and little white boys and little white girls will walk together as sisters and brothers.

7 I have a dream today. 8 I have a dream that one day 9

every valley shall be exalted,

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every hill and mountain shall be made low.

This passage is both cohesive and coherent. Continuity of form combines with continuity of sense thanks to syntactic and lexical cohesion. More specifically, syntactic parallelism interacts with recurrence (I have a dream that one day) and partial recurrence (e.g. I have a dream that one day – I have a dream that today ). Syntactic parallelism is also at play in embedded clauses with the same structure: 'Subj (Noun Phrase: Adj Noun) Aux (will/shall) Verb (active/passive)' (e.g. every valleys will be exalted, every hill and mountain will be made low). Relevant semantic fields comprise race, gender and family relations, landscape, change. Within these fields, some examples of antonyms are black and white (for race), boys and girls, brothers and sisters, for gender and family relations; valley as against hill and mountain for landscape; be exalted and be made low for

change. Importantly, parallelism combines with antonyms from specific semantic fields to bring to the fore the ability of opposites to meet into one single unity. On this view, join hands and walk together can be seen as broadly synonyms: they highlight unity and equality as against diversity and inequality, opposition and contrast....