ABSTRACT
Cohesion refers to the various linguistic means (grammatical, lexical, phonological) by which sentences ‘stick together’ and are linked into larger units of paragraphs, or stanzas, or chapters. Cohesion is produced by (a) the repetition of elements of the text, e.g. recurrence, textphoric, paraphrase, parallelism; (b) the compacting of text through the use of devices such as ellipsis; (c) the use of morphological and syntactic devices to express different kinds of relationships such as connection, tense, aspect, deixis, or theme-rheme relationships ( theme vs rheme) ( also coherence).
