Conditions for Coherence and Its Realization in Argumentation.pdf

1、Coherence is always a matter of dispute within the field of discourse anaiysis.Although many linguists have put forward some conditions that may affecttext-coherence, they usually make a judgement on the degree of cohere

2、nce byintuition. On this basis, the present study, first of all, classifies text-coherence into twocategoriese—macro-coherence and micro-coherence, according to text-coherence atdifferent levels. Macro-coherence in this

3、research refers to coherence at discourselevel while micro-coherence describes coherence at sentential level. And it is arguedthat macro-coherence is of greater importance than micro-coherence. Correspondingly,the condit

4、ions for macro-coherence, that is topicality and discourse structure, play amore important role than those of micro-coherence, which refer to cohesion,thematicprogression pattern and cognitive ozder.The above conclusions

5、 give rise to a set of criteria for rankings of text-coherencesince it is a matter of degree. It is arguable that the fully coherent texts are those thatachieve both macro- and micro-coherence; the texts which achieve on