392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

Cohesion in English is concerned with a relatively neglected part of the linguistic system: its resources for text construction, the range of meanings that are speciffically associated with relating what is being spoken or written to its semantic environment. A principal component of these resources is 'cohesion'. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relations between... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Reference; Chapter 3 Substitution; Chapter 4 Ellipsis; Chapter 5 Conjunction; Chapter 6 Lexical Cohesion; Chapter 7 The meaning of cohesion; Chapter 8 The analysis of cohesion;

Biography

M. A. K. Halliday