Cohesion in literary texts: a study of some grammatical and lexical features of English discourse

✍ Scribed by Waldemar Gutwinski

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Minor; 204
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
1. Introduction
1.1. Present state of discourse studies
1.2. Theoretical model
1.3. Place of discourse structure in the stratificational model
1.4. Cohesion as a linguistic concept allowing the study of discourse features on the grammatic stratum
1.5. Purpose of the present study
1.6. Restriction of the linguistic data
2. Theoretical basis for the study of cohesion
2.1. General remarks
2.2. Stratificational model
2.3. Semologic structure
3. Descriptive framework for the study of cohesion
3.1. Order as cohesive factor
3.2. Cohesive features
3.3. Anaphora
3.4. Coordination and subordination
3.5. Enation and agnation
3.6. Lexical cohesion
3.7. Cohesive features not studied
4. Cohesion in James
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Cohesion in pairs of adjacent sentences and between clauses of individual sentences in James’ paragraph
4.3. Overall cohesion in the paragraph
4.4. Summary discussion of cohesion in James’ paragraph
5. Cohesion in Hemingway
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Cohesion in adjacent sentences
5.3. Cohesion between clauses
5.4. Overall cohesion in the passage
5.5. Hemingway’s characteristic lexical cohesion
6. Implications and Conclusions
6.1. Cohesive features in literary texts
6.2. Cohesive choices and style
6.3. Cohesive features and discourse structure
6.4. Grammatical forms in view of cohesive features
6.5. Summary
Appendix I : Excerpt from The Portrait of a Lady
Appendix II: Excerpt from “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I”
Bibliography
Index