Cohesion

Cohesion

1. Is a semantical relation between an element and other element

   • it´s crucial to the interpretation of it
     • in others words is the glue that holds a text together

2. Types of cohesive ties

   • Reference
     • Refers to items that can´t comprehend semantically by their own
       • Exophoric
       • Endophoric
         • Anaphoric
         • Cataphoric
   • substitution
     • Is the process where a item is replaced by another in a text or speech
       • Nominal
       • Verbal
       • Clausal
   • Elipsis
     • Is the omission of an item
       • Nominal
       • Clausal
       • Vrbal
   • Lexical
     • Is the selection of the vocabulary
   • conjunction
     • words that are link to others for the text makes sense

3. Cohesive ties

   • is a single instance of cohesion
     • It indicate one occurrence of a pair of cohesively related items
   • You can count how many times the text is cohesion

4. Coherence

   • Is the result of a dialogue between the text and its listener or reader
     • The difference between coherence and cohesion, is that cohesion refers to grammatical and lexical elements