Abstract
This work sets out to identify and evaluate the use of cohesive ties in the EFCC Act, 2004. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) in Nigeria is a law enforcement agency saddled with the responsibility in the country to enforce laws against crime. It is an anti-corruption that combats financial crimes and sanitises the Nigerian economic space. Its Act guides the workings of the commission. It is this Act and its employ of cohesive devices that guides the interest of this research. The work evaluates the attainment of cohesion in the text using the perception of Halliday and Hasan (1976). Two sections of the EFCC Act, 2004 are randomly selected. They are analysed with the aid of tables. Both structural and semantic function of cohesive devices employed are evaluated. This is done in a manner that reveals the semantic implication of a given structural choice of selected cohesive devices. The work reveals that the dominant cohesive elements in the selected texts are conjunctions, reiteration, references (both exophora and endophora), and demonstratives. Each has a unique function being played. They are deliberate choices employed at specified sections to offer clarity of meaning, communicate specific information and avoid ambiguities and miscommunications.
Keywords: Cohesive ties, EFCC Act, Text creation, Meaning representation.
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/sojolics.2025.v01i02.030
author/Adamu, B., & Jallaba, A.
journal/Sokoto JOLICS 1(2) | November 2025 |
