چکیده (انگلیسی):

Cohesion is an indispensable linguistic feature in any discourse. Lexical Cohesion and conjunction as two crucial
elements to textual cohesion and comprehension have been the focus of a wide range of studies up to now. Yet the
relationship between the open register and cohesive devices has not been thoroughly investigated in discourse studies.
This study concentrates on the potential similarities and differences between literature for children and adult level
(regular) with respect to the frequency of lexical cohesive markers and conjunctions. To this end, selected excerpts of
two contemporary famous novels were analyzed and codified for the use of different kinds of lexical cohesion
(reiteration and collocation), conjunctions (elaboration, extension andenhancement)and theirsubcategories. The results
of Chi square tests showed that the children and regular novel texts were significantly different in terms of reiteration
and collocation as the main categories of lexical cohesion as well as total frequency of lexical cohesive pairs. Also, the
use of conjunctions, elaboration and extensionshowed significant difference. Yet, the difference was non-significant for
enhancement. The findings of this study add to the existing literature of research oncohesion and inspire researchers in
discourse studies, child language studies, andEnglish teaching and learning of youngchildren.