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 …

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 …

While" final version" written text is almost invariably more organised in appearance than
transcribed spoken language, it still owes its coherence to operations of interpretation on the …

When we experience a sequence of events, do we experience the events as a series of
isolated, independent occurrences or do we experience them as forming a coherent whole …

It is important to test notions of coherence against the maximally unruly reality of
spontaneous conversation, otherwise there is a danger that theory will be generated by the …

This paper suggests that text coherence is a multi-factored affair that, ultimately, pertains to
the mental organization of episodic memory, most likely as a partially-hierarchic mental …

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 …

Most linguists and experimental psychologists derive their understand ing of text coherence,
such as it is, almost exclusively from the study of well-edited written text, 1 and the behavior …

. 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 …

This paper discusses discourse components in writing, especially the relationship between
coherence and connectedness, and examines connectedness in children's written essays …