NAME: YANINA SALGUEIRO
SUBJECT: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT 2
TASK: List and classify all the cohesive devices (verb form, parallelism, referring expressions, repetition,
lexical chain, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions and co occurrence) you can find in each sentence of the
synopsis of the film “I’m a Legend” at the end of unit 1 (you may not find examples of all of them).
S1Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist. S2However, he could not contain the
terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. S3Somehow immune, Neville is
now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world.
S4For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any
other survivors who might be out there.S5 But he is not alone. S6Mutant victims of the plague The Infected - lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a
fatal mistake. S7Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining
mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. S8But he
knows he is outnumbered... and quickly running out of time.
S9You can´t miss it. S10“ I am a legend” is a movie that will take your breath away.
Verbs
S1: Is
S2: could not – was
S3: Is – Is
S4: Has sent – Find – might be
S5: Is not
S6: lurk – watching – waiting – make –
S7: is driven - to find – to reserve – using –
S8: knows – is - running
S9: can`t miss
S10: am- is – will take
Parallelism : There is no Parallelism Structures
Referring Expressions
S2: He - In S1: Robert Neville (Will Smith) – Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S4: There – In S3: New York City. Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S5: He. In S3 Neville Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S6: Him In S5: Neville Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S7: His In S7: Neville Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S8: He In S6: Neville Endophoric, Anaphoric reference.
S9: You. Cataphoric Reference
S10: Your Exophoric reference
Repetition
Neville: In Sentences 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Inmune: In Sentences 3 , 7
Virus: In Sentences 2 , 7
Survivor: In Sentences 3, 4
Elegant repetition
Virus – Plague
Human – Mankind
Substitution: There is no substitution
Ellipsis
But he knows he is outnumbered ( By the mutants )
You can`t miss it ( The movie )
Conjunctions
S2: However – contrast
S4: For three years – time conjunction
S5: But – contrast
S8: But - contrast
Co-Occurrence:
Horror films / Sci-fi films: scientist - terrible – virus- unstoppable – incurable – man-made – immune – survivor –
mutant – victim – plague – infected – shadows – fatal – mission – blood.
Synopsis: Movie and names of actor