I’m working on a linguistics question and need an explanation to help me learn.

Analyse the following text with respect to the use of the cohesive component of conjunction.

Provide definitions of the relevant concepts – cohesive component and conjunction – and use

the appropriate terminology (200 words).

Many speakers of English share the view that the language of academic writing is peculiar, not

only different from everyday speech, but also different from most registers of English. These

perceived differences are not neutral. Rather, a common stereotype of academic prose is that it

is deliberately complex, and more concerned with impressing readers than communicating ideas

– all making it needlessly difficult to understand.

These attitudes are reflected in the label academese, which is usually defined with negative

connotations. (…)

Our goals in the present book are not to enter into a debate about ‘good’ or ‘bad’ academic

writing, or the motivations for the ‘academese’ found in many academic texts. But we are

[original emphasis] interested in the linguistic characteristics of academic writings, including the

differences between humanities writing and science writing. (…)

In the following chapters, we show that …. (Biber & Gray 2016: 1-4)

Biber, Douglas and Gray, Bethany. 2016 Grammatical Complexity in Academic English.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press