Ответ: [RST-LIST] Coherence

[Viatscheslav Iatsko]

Dear RST-listers
B.Mann in his contribution distinguished between cohesion and coherence
having pointed out that "cohesive devices for expressing links between
sentences include "repeated words, names and phrases, repeated mention
(where the same is evoked, but the evoking words are different), anaphora
(now these categories obviously overlap) including zero anaphora, pronouns,
titles ("Your Honor"), temporal and locative orientations such as "earlier",
"here" and "now" and many more". Coherence, in his opinion, "has to do with
an impression of wholeness".
May I draw you attention to the fact that this definition of coherence is
rather general and has neither linguistic nor logical distinctions. A more
specific treatment of coherence was suggested by Russian and German scholars
(see, e.g. Fleischer, W., (1977), Michel, G. Stilistik der deutschen
gegenwartssprache. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut). According to it
coherence is based upon logical relations between sentences, such as
synchronic, diachronic, and causative-consecutive. These logical relations
constitute the background of three types of discourse: description,
narration, and reasoning. Cohesion and coherence relate to each other as
surface and deep levels of discourse structure.

Slava
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