Abstract
Cohesion, being a concept within the field of linguistics that refers to how words, phrases and sentences are related to one another, involves the use of linking words such as conjunctions, reiteration, substitution, ellipsis, reference and collocation to connect ideas within a sentence or paragraph to create meaning as meaning is derived from a well-structured text. This study analyses grammatical and lexical cohesive ties in Amirikpa Oyigbenu’s (2016) Town Hall Whispers. The study basically applied a qualitative method of analysis to the data. It adopts the Halliday and Hasan (1976) model of cohesion as its theoretical framework. The different grammatical and lexical cohesion types were discussed and divided under sub headings. All data used were obtained from the text under study and examples were drawn to discuss the sub-types of cohesion. Amirikpa employed these ties to create a better understanding of the structure and grammar used in his text.
These devices are series of lexical, grammatical and other relations that provide links between the various parts of a text. Quite a number of cohesive devices were found in the play and that a text can only be meaningful by combining all the linguistic elements brought together to form a unified whole. The study further revealed that the least used cohesive devices are substitution and ellipsis