DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
Lecture 8
CO-TEXTUAL RELATIONS
, CO-TEXTUAL
RELATIONS
Text - the verbal record of a
communicative event.
A text has texture
(structure) and this is what
distinguishes it from
something that is not a text.
, CO-TEXTUAL
RELATIONS
The texture is provided by the
cohesive (co-textual) RELATION'.
Cohesive relationships within a
text are set up 'where the
INTERPRETATION of some
element in the discourse is
dependent on that of another.
, CO-TEXTUAL
RELATIONS
I saw Mary in
the park
yesterday. She
looked lovely.