refers to the way in which a text hangs together: “it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text.”20 According to Halliday and Matthiessen, language has “resources for managing the flow of discourse: for creating semantic links across sentences—or rather, semantic links which work equally well either within or across sentences.”21 The study of cohesion asks how speakers form texts into complete units. What makes a text a text rather than a collection of
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