Cohesion (linguistics)

Cohesion or textual cohesion is a term from the text linguistics and signifies the formal cohesion of a spoken or written text, which is mediated by external marks, for example by the use of certain tenses, pronouns and deictics. Text cohesion is thus differentiated from text coherence, which refers to the substantive context. Often, however, in a broader sense, as a generic term for cohesion and coherence ( in the narrow sense: semantic connections between sentences ) and coherence understood. One of the most prominent researchers in this area of text linguistics is the Anglist and linguist Wolfram Bublitz.

According to Halliday / Hasan, cohesion is a textkonstitutive (text -forming ) semantic relation. It ensures that sentences are syntactically related or considered as coherent, as opposed to a ( grammatically or interactive) incoherent sequence of sentences or words.

There are various cohesion funds, let us realize a text as coherent, for example: