Sentence examples for cohesive discourse from inspiring English sources
The reference to the preceding text is part of the way in which the teachers produce a richer and more cohesive discourse than the other adults.
The right frontal lobe mediates language melody or prosody and forms a cohesive discourse, interprets abstract communication in spoken and written languages, and interprets the inferred relationships involved in communications.
So a central concern for me was reinterpreting cohesive ties as discourse semantic structures and the systems behind them as discourse semantic systems – a project precipitated by Hasan's work on componential and organic cohesion, cohesive harmony and text structure (e.g. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 of Halliday & Hasan 1980).
They are very cohesive at the level of their discourse and in terms of the methods they employ, but they are not a co-ordinated, cohesive force by any means.
These advocacy coalitions or discourse coalitions tend to reiterate cohesive sets of policy beliefs or claims, but there is little belief overlap across coalitions.
In our analysis, we use discourses in Hollway's [ 25] sense to mean a cohesive set of spoken ideas that are shared socially but not necessarily held in their entirety by any one individual.
Thus, children's performance in the discourse skills task may reflect their sensitivity of text coherence, and knowledge about cohesive devices and discourse markers.
Cohesive devices (Connor & Johns, 1990; Halliday & Hasan, 1967) are words or phrases that tie discourse together, signaling links in meaning across text.
A CoI consists of a cohesive and interactive group of learners who critically analyze, construct and confirm knowledge through connections, collaboration, reflection and discourse (Garrison and Arbaugh 2007).
