cohesion

[James Cornish]

I have a question for the Hallidayeans on the list:

Hoey (1992) claims that the types of cohesion written about in Halliday
and Hasan's _Cohesion in English_ (1972?) can be, for the most part,
compressed into types of lexical cohesion.  Is this claim valid for the
purposes of empirical studies of written texts or are the more
finely-tuned senses of Halliday's system needed?

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