2/18/2023 0 Comments Coherence vs cohesion![]() Several abstracts of the students’ final projects were selected randomly to be analyzed. Its objectives are (1) to reveal the micro-level coherence, how each sentence is connected to the other to make logical relations and (2) to discover the macro-level coherence, the right use of cohesive devices like conjunction, reference, substitution or ellipsis so as to make the whole text coherent. This article attempts to reveal the coherence of the abstracts of the final project reports of the undergraduate students of PGRI University Semarang, Indonesia. However, many of the students still find difficulties in making their writing coherent due to their limitation in understanding the cohesive devices and their application in their writing. Since it plays an important role in grasping the information of the whole research report, the writing of the abstract, therefore should be concise and the logical relation among sentences is clear, coherent and cohesive. She is involved in the research project Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse, the aim of which is to conceptualize coherence and cohesion as constitutive components of human communication and to apply theoretical insights to the analysis of spoken and written discourse.An abstract is the gist of a research report which has the purpose to allow the reader to get the main information without reading the whole document. ![]() She has published many articles on topics related to her research interests, notably in Brno Studies in English, Topics in Linguistics, Current Developments in Foreign Studies in Philology, and Discourse and Interaction, which she co-edits with Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova. She is author of two monographs, namely Spatial and Temporal Adverbials in English Authentic Face-to-Face Conversation (2003), in which she investigates the role of spatial and temporal adverbials in authentic private face-to-face conversation, and Interactive Discourse Markers in Spoken English (forthc.), in which she deals with clausal forms, such as you know, you see, I mean, I think, I’m sure, with the aim of identifying the important pragmatic functions these markers perform in spoken discourse. Her research interests lie in the areas of discourse analysis, pragmatics and conversation analysis, concentrating mainly on coherence, cohesion and interactional markers in impromptu and academic spoken discourse. Renata Povolná is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She is involved in the research project Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse, the aim of which is to conceptualize coherence and cohesion as constitutive components of human communication and to explore features and strategies enhancing the perception of coherence and cohesion in different genres of spoken and written discourse. She has published many articles on topics related to her research interests, notably in Brno Studies in English, Topics in Linguistics, Current Developments in Foreign Studies in Philology, and Discourse and Interaction, which she co-edits with Renata Povolná. She is currently working on her book Analysing Genre: The Text-Colony of UNESCO Resolutions, in which she analyses the distinctive features of the colony text type as represented in the genre of resolutions. She specialises in discourse analysis, stylistics and pragmatics, focusing on cohesion and coherence strategies in political and academic discourse. Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. ![]() This volume, which combines theoretical insights with practical analyses of different varieties of spoken and written English discourse, will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of English. The chapters of the book comprise essays by linguists working in the fields of pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics which explore features contributing to the perception of cohesion and coherence in spoken and written varieties of English, namely impromptu, academic and political discourse within the former variety, and media, academic and fictional discourse within the latter. ![]() Despite the variety of approaches the authors adopt, they share an understanding of language as a dynamic and heterogeneous system mediating interaction in social and cultural contexts and explain how coherence and cohesion are reflected in different contextually bound aspects of human communication. Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse provides new insights into the various ways coherence works in a wide spread of spoken and written text types and interactional situations, all of which point to the dynamics and subjectivity of its nature. ![]()
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