COHESION IN ENGLISH
1
,Before defining what cohesion is, it
is useful to reflect on the notion of
TEXT:
in linguistics, the word “text” refers
to any passage, spoken or written,
of whatever length, that forms a
unified whole.
2
, In other words, any speaker of
English who reads or hears a
passage which is more than one
sentence in length, is able to
understand whether it forms a
unified whole or whether it is just a
collection of unrelated sentences.
3
, This suggests that there must be
objective factors involved, namely
certain features which are
characteristic of texts and not
found otherwise.
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1
,Before defining what cohesion is, it
is useful to reflect on the notion of
TEXT:
in linguistics, the word “text” refers
to any passage, spoken or written,
of whatever length, that forms a
unified whole.
2
, In other words, any speaker of
English who reads or hears a
passage which is more than one
sentence in length, is able to
understand whether it forms a
unified whole or whether it is just a
collection of unrelated sentences.
3
, This suggests that there must be
objective factors involved, namely
certain features which are
characteristic of texts and not
found otherwise.
4
