Principles Of Text Cohesion And Coherence

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Based on the above observations on the text, we will focus in detail on the principles of text connectivity and communication.
Text Connectivity: Cohesion and Coherence
As we have discussed the above, the central concern of textlinguistics is to discern how different parts of a text (sentence or paragraph) are combined together according to the principles of connectivity through which dynamic communication is available. In order to investigate the rules of text connectivity and communication, we are to take into consideration the following matters: (1) syntactic cohesion (2) thematic coherence.
Syntactic Cohesion (Local Coherence)
The various linguistic components in the text are related and integrated to each other through a dependent relationship. …show more content…

See also M. A. K. Halliday, “Descriptive Linguistics in Literary Studies,” Patterns of Language (ed. Angus McIntosh and M. A. K. Halliday, London: Longmans, 1966), 56-59.
72Ellis, From Language to Communication, 111. Jeffrey T. Reed also rightly asserted, “At a very basic level, linguistic cohesiveness refers to the means by which an immediate linguistic context meaningfully relates to a preceding context and/or a context of situation (i.e. meaningful relationships between text, co-text and context).” (Jeffrey T. Reed, “The Cohesiveness of Discourse: Towards a Model of Linguistic Criteria for Analyzing …show more content…

Villaume and Donald J. Cegala, “Interaction Involvement and Discourse Strategies: The Patterned Use of Cohesive Devices in Conversation,” Communication Monographs 55 (1988): 24. See also, Betty Bamberg, “What Makes a Text Coherence?” College Composition and Communication 34 (1983): 417-29; Rachel Giora, “Notes towards a Theory of Text Coherence,” Poetics Today 6 (1985): 699-715. By providing some illustrations, Giora and Bamberg argue that although a text contains cohesive devices, readers will not regard the text as a whole to be coherent unless they can find a broader theme over the whole discourse. Hence, some scholars prefer the more inclusive term “local coherence” instead of syntactic

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