Cohesion
المؤلف:
Bronwen Martin and Felizitas Ringham
المصدر:
Dictionary of Semiotics
الجزء والصفحة:
P35
2025-05-17
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Cohesion
Cohesion describes the process whereby sentences or utterances are linked together to form a text. Cohesive devices (or ties) are those words or phrases which enable the writer/speaker to establish relationships across sentence or utterance boundaries and which help to link the different parts of the text together. Continuity of meaning is thus achieved.
There are four ways in which cohesion is created. Three of these are grammatical: reference, ellipsis and conjunction; the fourth is lexical. Common cohesive devices are the use of pronouns (functioning as anaphora), repetition, synonyms and collocation.
To give an example:
(a): Have you seen the books? (b): No, I don't know where they are.
The pronoun 'they' refers back to 'books', thus establishing a cohesive tie between the two sentences.
Specialists in discourse analysis make a distinction between the concepts of cohesion and coherence. Whereas cohesion refers to explicit cohesive devices within a text, coherence relates to background knowledge and context. It includes, for example, all those implicit assumptions or presuppositions without which a text would not make sense.
See also conjunction, ellipsis, lexical cohesion and reference.
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