Referential and relational discourse coherence in adults and children

Abstract

This volume unites contributions dealing with different aspects of text or, in a wider sense - discourse - coherence. Text or discourse coherence is a debated notion which is treated differently not only by various domains of linguistics, such as text linguistics or psycholinguistics, but also within the individual domains of linguistics. Generally, coherence captures the observation that all parts of a sequence of sentences must be connected among each other contentwise in order to be a text intuitively, whereby a text may be long or short, spoken or written. © 2020 De Gruyter Inc.