Text Text: Coherence & Cohesion (Halliday & Hasan 1976)

Text

A text is best regarded as a SEMANTIC unit: a unit not of form but of meaning. Thus it is related to a clause or sentence not by size but by REALIZATION, the coding of one symbolic system in another. A text does not CONSIST OF sentences; it is REALIZED BY, or encoded in, sentences."

 

Cohesion

grammatischer Zusammenhang
Cohesion, therefore, is part of the text-forming component in the linguistic system. It is the means whereby elements that are structurally unrelated to one another are linked together, through the dependence of one on the other for its interpretation. (27)

 

Coherence

semantischer Zusammenhang


Literaturhinweise

Halliday, Michael A. & Hasan, Ruquiya (1976) Cohesion in English. London: Longman
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