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lexical cohesion: a standalone construct

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Discourse analysis

the cohesion that comes from repetition and related vocabulary across sentences, which links sentences into networks that reveal text organization.

In discourse analysis, lexical cohesion refers to the cohesion that comes from Repetition and related vocabulary across sentences, which links sentences into networks that reveal text organization. This meaning comes from Hoey (1991) in Patterns of Lexis in Text.[1]

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Nearby constructs

cohesion4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs repetition3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Hoey, M. (1991). Patterns of Lexis in Text. Oxford Univ Pr (Sd). ISBN 9780194371421

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