A prototypical place where sentences emerge in the natural world is within utterances in
conversation. 1 This paper will focus on how the accomplishment of coherence in discourse …

This chapter examines some ways in which the coherence of language depends on the
coherence of activities across turns by different people in a conversation. The perspective I …

For participants in discourse, it is of fundamental importance that actions and utterances, at
each moment," make sense". We can think of sense-making as consisting in the actors'(and …

This paper approaches the notion of coherence from a perhaps somewhat unusual
perspective, viz. that of conversation-analysis (CA). I will argue here in favour of a more …

. Introduction... the sequence you actually hear or see is like the tip of an iceberg–a tiny
amount of matter and energy into which an enormous amount of information has been …

Conversational coherence is a coöperative enterprise in which speaker and hearer jointly
negotiate (a) a focus of attention-a referent-and (b) a response which further selects what …

The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon
rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence …

Until very recently, coherence (unlike cohesion) was widely held to be a 'rather mystical
notion'. However, taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in …

Researchers in different fields have offered rather varied definitions of coherence, from on
the one hand the closely text-based definitions such as van Dijk (1977)".... a dialogue is …

This study contributes to an understanding of how coherence can be assigned or
constructed by participants in authentic multiparty conversational interaction. Coherence is …