Cohesion in Selected British and American Poems. A Contrastive Study

      Аннотация: In any text, every sentence, except the first, exhibits some form of cohesion with a preceding sentence, usually with the one immediately preceding. The concept of cohesion as stated by Halliday and Hasan (1976:2) is a semantic one, it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text and that define it as a text. It occurs where the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another, the one presupposes the other when this happens a relation of cohesion is set up. This semantic relation between an element in the text and some other elements that is crucial to the interpretation of it is achieved by using both grammatical and lexical devices.

Ключевые слова: Cohesion, grammatical, lexical cohesion, Poems