Coherence

Coherence

1. It is the semantic unit of a text. In other words, it is the necessary connection that must exist between the ideas presented in a text to develop the theme.

2. The coherence of a text is based on the fact that the elements present in it remain throughout the entire message. Now, in some literary trends where "automatic writing" and the "stream of consciousness" are used, the text may present an aspect of incoherence, but that is not the case, because these texts are constructed in such a way that it is possible to assign them a theme and a unit, even if it is of a different nature than what we are used to.

3. For a text to be coherent it must maintain the same theme and all the elements that compose it have to point to that theme. In other words, we can say that a text is coherent when each of the parts that make it up is related to the central theme.

4. Example

   • By bus to my house I stumble across a jiggling, moving surface that throws me against the iron. A singer saves me and sits me in the chair with a smile on my face. Give me money, plates, piticlín, plin, plin who is the one that comes there so pretty and so kind. Cold faces glued to the window, a breeze hitting the forehead, the lady who claims that she has not been given a ticket and a bed that is waiting wet in the house.

5. global coherence

   • For a text to be coherent, it must have a central theme, and all ideas, main and secondary, must always be related to that idea.

6. local coherence

   • All ideas must be organized in an orderly and logical way, that is, there must be an internal sequence that allows us to follow the text and achieve a better understanding of the information.
   • Local coherence is manifested through the presence or absence of certain elements, which make it possible to relate the different sentences that make up the text.

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