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Publication details [#27035]

Thompson, Susan. 1994. Aspects of cohesion in monologue. Applied Linguistics 15 (1) : 58–75.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cohesion | interpretation | meaning | monologue | speaker

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper examines the linguistic resources that enable a speaker to signal explicitly the semantic relations underlying the surface monologue. Thus lexico-grammatical cohesion, intonation choices and clause relations help listeners make coherent text interpretation.