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Overview"Intuitively all users of language understand whether a unit of discourse is cohesive, whether it makes sense. Markels seeks to ""formalize some of this innate knowledge about discourse by describing some of the textual cues that contribute to cohesion in particular types of English paragraphs."" Focusing on expository paragraphs, she investigates the ""semantic relations among nouns necessary to create noun chains and the syntactic information necessary to invest those chains with cohesion."" Other researchers have investigated cohesion only as a semantic phenomenon, but by pursuing this new approach, Markels gives equal weight to syntax. She points out that ""while noun chains establish semantic consistency only the interaction of those chains with syntactic information that thematizes them can create cohesion."" Markels identifies and describes four common patterns through which paragraphs achieve cohesion or unity. In describing these cohesion patterns, she also identifies paragraph structures based on semantic and syntactic relationships that produce cohesion." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robin Bell MarkelsPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9780809311521ISBN 10: 0809311526 Pages: 120 Publication Date: 01 March 1984 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRobin Bell Markels teaches English at Ohio State University and is an invited member of the National Conference on Research in English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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