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Textual cohesion is considered one of the most prominent Issues addressed by text linguistics, due to Its significance in revealing the interconnectedness and internal harmony of a text's elements. Pronominal reference is one of the linguistic phenomena that effectively contribute to achieving this cohesion, as It is relied upon to link sentences and Ideas, avoid excessive repetition, and direct the reader's mind toward a specific referent within the context. This research aims to study pronominal reference In Surah Saba and highlight its role and Importance in enhancing the cohesion of the Quranic text. It focuses on analyzing how pronouns-whether attached or detached-are employed to link linguistic elements and various topics within the Surah, by referring to persons, concepts, or objects mentioned earlier in the context, thus contributing to reducing redundancy and achieving fluency of expression. This study adopts the descriptive-analytical method, based on the analysis of Quranic examples and the extrapolation of patterns of pronominal reference in Surah Saba to uncover their role In achieving textual cohesion.

In this paper, we propose a reflection on the French gerund phrases ce disant / ce faisant. Our aim is to show how this gerund expression (neutral pronoun CE + non finite verb form) constitutes a privileged marker of informational continuity in discourse sequences. We will also identify the antecedent of the demonstrative pronoun CE in the left context. The corpus reveals that the role of these expressions is comparable to that of framing adverbs. They set a framework within which the matrix clause is interpreted. We will see that this semantic value is generated both by the thematic nature of such expressions and the syntactic dislocation in their host sentences.

We propose a semantic, geometric, and statistical framework for quantifying and ordering textual cohesion in long-form discourse. Sentences are embedded into a semantic similarity graph and Ollivier–Ricci curvature is used to extract sentence- and document-level structural profiles, represented as step functions on a normalized rhetorical-time axis. On this functional space we define the Weighted Utopia Index (wUI), a corpus-relative measure of weighted shortfall from an upper-envelope profile under a dominance-type ordering. The rhetorical-time weighting function is learned self-supervised: we generate controlled sentence-order perturbations with known ordinal coherence degradation and estimate the weight parameters via an ordered probit model on a training split. We evaluate ordering recovery on held-out State of the Union speeches using rank correlations, pairwise and adjacent ordering accuracy, and violation-localization diagnostics with bootstrap uncertainty. Across these criteria, wUI systematically outperforms embedding-only adjacent-similarity baselines, while a Nash-type aggregation provides an interpretable semantic–structural trade-off score. An application to later-period speeches illustrates how the method yields interpretable cohesion rankings and curvature-profile diagnostics without requiring external annotations.

The article reflects the linguistic work of Ján Horecký in connection with hyper syntax and text linguistics. In his work (Outline of linguistics) Ján Horecký remarks (1974, p. 90) that one of the principles of text construction is the literal repetition of certain words. We discuss this Horecký’s assumption and describe its consequences for the and the concepts of textual and textual . The main task of the article is to examine Horeský’s assumption. For these purposes, we present an authorship attribution analysis of literary works by two Slovak authors: Svetozár Hurban Vajanský and Martin Kukučín. We focus on low‐frequency lexicon, i.e. hapax legomena, which are supposed to be independent of the authorial style (e.g. Binongo, 2003) and should reflect random circumstances of communication (de Saussure, 1996, p. 50; Bloomfield, 1933, p. 170). This means that if the structure of the text were to be affected by the repetition of certain words, the low frequency layer of the lexicon should contain evidence of this repetition with a low degree of dependence on the content and style of the literary work (Baayen, 1996). The analysis and its presentation is based on separate processing of hapax legomena and their n‐grams, cosine dissimilarity and multidimensional scaling (Torgerson, 1952). Contrary to the general notion of the text structure, we conclude that the authorial texts are based on the repetition of certain word forms and word forms combinations (by n‐gram analysis), even in the level of low‐frequency words.

The category of discourse marker (DM) has been aplied in diverse senses and theoretical perspectives in hispanic linguistics that make imposible to find a term including all kind of phenomena classified as discourse markers. The hypothesis of this paper is that this diversity is vinculated to a methodological perspective where most of the work is based on studying the function of each marker, rather than analyzing the slots where discourse markers operate, including other kinds of constructions that are not always grammaticalized. On this base, the paper proposes the category of discourse marking as a macrofunction that can be subcategorized in diferent marking functions, rather than the perpective of describing units on the basis of other marking functions that are not fixed and grammaticalized

Trois ouvrages historiques du ive siècle ont été examinés du point de vue du style et de la narration : les « breuiaria » d’Aurélius Victor, d’Eutrope et de Festus. L’analyse porte avant tout sur l’emploi des temps verbaux, l’ordre des termes dans la phrase, les questions de la cohérence et l’attitude du narrateur. En conclusion, on peut constater que les trois ouvrages suivent plus ou moins la tradition classique, mais que leur écriture se rapproche, sur certains points, du registre de la langue parlée. Les marques de la subjectivité du narrateur sont recensées surtout par la comparaison de certains chapitres à thématique parallèle. Three historical works written in the 4th century have so far been examined from the point of view of style and narration: the “breviaria” of Aurelius Victor, Eutropius, and Festus. The topics chosen for my analysis are the use of tenses, word order in the sentence, problems of textual cohesion, and narrator’s attitude. The three texts mainly follow the classical tradition, but in some features, they are close to the register of the spoken language. Features expressing the narrator’s subjectivity are shown here through a comparison of paragraphs presenting parallel themes.

This qualitative study examined multimodal cohesive devices in English oral biology texts by eight high-achieving Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language students enrolled in a Bachelor of Science Dentistry program. A Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) of the textual and logical cohesive devices in oral biology texts was conducted, employing Halliday and Hasan’s cohesion analysis scheme. The findings showed that students used varied cohesive devices: lexical cohesion, followed by reference and conjunctions. Although ellipsis was minimally employed in the oral biology texts, its discipline-specific uses emerged: the use of bullet points and numbered lists that facilitate recall. The SF-MDA of cohesion in multimodal semiotic resources highlighted the processes underlying construction of conceptual and linguistic knowledge of cohesive devices in oral biology texts. The results indicate that oral biology discourse is interdisciplinary, including a number of subfields in biology. The SF-MDA of pictorial oral biology representations indicates that they include instances of cohesive devices that illustrate and complement verbal texts. The results indicate that undergraduate students need to be provided with a variety of multimodal high-cohesion texts so that they can successfully extend underlying conceptual and logical meaning-making relations.

The article reflects the linguistic work of Ján Horecký in connection with hyper syntax and text linguistics. In his work Základy jazykovedy (Outline of linguistics) Ján Horecký remarks (1974, p. 90) that one of the principles of text construction is the literal repetition of certain words. We discuss this Horecký’s assumption and describe its consequences for the langue parole opposition and the concepts of textual isotopy and textual cohesion. The main task of the article is to examine Horeský’s assumption. For these purposes, we present an authorship attribution analysis of literary works by two Slovak authors: Svetozár Hurban Vajanský and Martin Kukučín. We focus on low‐frequency lexicon, i.e. hapax legomena, which are supposed to be independent of the authorial style (e.g. Binongo, 2003) and should reflect random circumstances of communication (de Saussure, 1996, p. 50; Bloomfield, 1933, p. 170). This means that if the structure of the text were to be affected by the repetition of certain words, the low frequency layer of the lexicon should contain evidence of this repetition with a low degree of dependence on the content and style of the literary work (Baayen, 1996). The analysis and its presentation is based on separate processing of hapax legomena and their n‐grams, cosine dissimilarity and multidimensional scaling (Torgerson, 1952). Contrary to the general notion of the text structure, we conclude that the authorial texts are based on the repetition of certain word forms and word forms combinations (by n‐gram analysis), even in the level of low‐frequency words.

This chapter contains sections titled: Theories of “Poetic Language” in Greek and Roman Critics The Sounds of Poetry. Prosody and Recitation Phonetics, Spelling, and Morphology The Lexicon Syntax (Nominal, Verbal, Periodic) Cohesion and Word‐Order Further Reading