150 Examples of what Connectors and Nexuses are for.

What are connectors and links for?

The connectors, also called links or relationships, are linguistic elements that serve to link the ideas of a text, in different ways and link them logically.

They allow to establish relationships of cause, consequence, opposition, union, distinction or order between the ideas or the information that is being expressed. There are many and varied types of connectors or links. Some are equivalent to one word. For instance: but, also, in addition. Others are made up of idioms, adverbs or phrases. For instance: however, consequently, because of, why.

The connectors or links are used to:

Characteristics of the connectors or links

In many cases, the connectors are polysemic. This means that they can establish different types of relationships between statements. For instance: on the other hand can work as adversative connector and as a speech organizer, to indicate the transition from one topic to another.

In turn, they can be switchable. More than one connector can be used to express the same type of relationship between sentences. For example: to indicate a cause relationship you could use the connectors

because or given that. For instance:We suspended the event given that she is going to rain. / We suspended the event because she is going to rain.

However, that two connectors are equivalent does not always imply that they are also switchable. For instance: Ana really likes war movies and those of action. /Ana likes war movies very much. The same way is interested in action. (They express the same thing but the latter cannot replace the former in statement 1).

Connector types

In general, the concepts of link, nexus, connector, logical connector, textual connector, discursive connector or marker textual are used interchangeably to refer to the words or groups of words that are used to relate ideas. However, there is a difference between one and the other, because their function in a text can vary:

• Links. Also called Logical connectors, are those conjunctions or phrases that link propositions or other constituents within a sentence. They do not relate paragraphs or sentences or organize the speech. For instance: pink and Margarita are neighbors and friends since childhood, but they did not go to the same school.

• Speech markers. Also called textual connectors or textual markers, they are very varied structures (conjunctions, adverbs, phrases conjunctives and adverbials, phrases or sentences) that relate paragraphs and sentences and that, in addition, modify sentences, organize the text, logically connect the different structures that make it up or express the speaker's attitude towards the stated idea. For instance:

After World War II, the prestigious German automaker had many financial problems. Consequently, it was proposed to build a car that required little investment and could be interesting for the public. AlthoughIt is true that the vehicle was unstable and did not have seat belts, it's undeniable which had a very good reception because it was practical and economical to maintain.
Being small and having a motorcycle engine, it consumed little fuel. Without a doubt, this was very important for the inhabitants of a Europe under reconstruction, above all for residents of large cities.
About Its success in sales, the popularity of the vehicle was such that the company marketed licenses for it to be manufactured by companies around the world.
Anyway, the company paid off its debts, avoided bankruptcy and unwittingly launched a vehicle that is still coveted by collectors around the world today. And look that it was not easy for him.

It is worth clarifying that some connectors can be logical or textual, according to the way they are used in the text.

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