Notes on coherence in spoken and written discourse (with some implications for teaching)
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | English Projects in Teaching and Research in Central Europe, Research in English and Applied Linguistics, REAL Studies 4 |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | coherence; cohesion; intertextuality; coherence relations; well-formed texts; spoken discourse; written discourse |
| Description | The present paper attempts to contribute to the study of coherence, an important linguistic notion not yet uniformly defined by linguists. While taking coherence into account particularly in relation to cohesion and intertextuality, the author concentrates on the differences between spoken and written discourse which are reflected in the language means that speakers/writers use when encoding the messages they want to convey to their addressees and which the hearers/readers have to decode in order to arrive at meanings coherent with the speakers/writers communicative goals. The author - a university teacher - also includes some implications for the teaching process which result from the important role coherence relations perform in the structuring of a well-formed and comprehensible text. |
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