Cohesion (linguistics)
Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical links within a text or sentence that hold a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence.
There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical, referring to the structural content, and lexical, referring to the language content of the piece. A cohesive text is created in many different ways. In Cohesion in English, M.A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts: reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical cohesion and conjunction.
Read more about Cohesion (linguistics): Referencing, Ellipsis, Substitution, Conjunction and Transitions, Grammatical Cohesion
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