Cohesion And Coherence: Siamese Twins in Textuality

Abstract

Cohesion and coherence are two properties used in text linguistics to determine the quality of an article or any written content. They are mainly regarded as the links that hold between clauses or sentences in a text and give both grammatical and semantic meaning to that text. These links are needed to establish the grammatical and lexical relationships between the elements that occur in adjacent clauses or sentences. While cohesion refers to surface structure relations, sticking together different sentences, phrases and paragraphs with each other. Coherence is often related to deep structure relationships and determines the quality of the content. This work examines the intertwined relationship between coherence and cohesion in literary discourse.