This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Students in Lesotho secondary schools were given a test on the logical connectives "and", "or", and "if-then" in either English or Sesotho. In ...

Each item below offers a choice, in a pull-down menu, of four connectives for expressing various logical relationships. For each numbered item, select the connective that best fits in the sentence.

Language has various mechanisms to show relationships among and between ideas. At the level of discourse, for example, a writer communicates the relative importance of individual ideas by expressing ...

The ability to express causes, reasons and justifications is essential for language use. Causality appears in all kinds of texts/discourse and it can be marked for example by causal connectives and ...