Concept information
Preferred term
coherence
Definition
- The main principle of organization postulated to account for the underlying functional connectedness or identity of a piece of spoken or written language (text, discourse). (Crystal, A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 2008)
Broader concept
Scope note
- In this context, coherence is usually contrasted with cohesion, which refers to the syntactic or semantic connectivity of linguistic forms at a surface-structure level of analysis. (Crystal, A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 2008)
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In other languages
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French
URI
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