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Volume 10 : 9 September 2010
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Cohesion and Coherence in the novel The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James

Mohammad Yahya Bani Salameh, Ph.D. Scholar
A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper argues that cohesion and coherence in the novel The Portrait of a Lady, written by Henry James, highlight how they are stylistically used. Through this paper, we see how Henry James uses coherence between the sentences and how sentences are sequenced and how one thing leads to another implication and so on. In this paper, we deal with syntactic and semantic cohesion in the novel. Examples will clarify how the writer used syntactic and semantic cohesion and coherence in his literary work.

Keywords: cohesion and coherence, syntactic and semantic cohesion, Phonological cohesion, Discourse cohesion, stylistics, discourse analysis and Stylistics Devices (SDs).

Introduction

Cohesion involves formal linguistic links between sections of a text-things which can be listed, pointed at, classified. Coherence is more difficult to define or analyse since it refers to the way we know a text gels together- continuity of theme, cause and effect, and so on. Cohesion is a surface feature-we recognise it immediately. Coherence, especially if cohesive features are rare in a text, may only emerge slowly. By delaying our realisation of the coherence of a passage, writers can make that realization, all the more powerful (Wright. L & Hope. J, 1996: 137).

Cohesion is an important concept in discourse analysis. Halliday and Hassan (1976) have discussed in detail lexical cohesion as one of the means of achieving cohesion in a discourse, the other being phonological, syntactic and semantic. Any piece of writing, if it is to make sense at all, uses vocabulary and syntactic structure to bond or connect sentences together. The random selection of sentences does not create a coherent text. To make a text comprehensible, there should be two main ways in which sentences are combined with each other within a text; they are cohesion and coherence. These concepts work together, rather than independently, in helping one to understand the ways in which a text makes sense.

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Mohammad Yahya Bani Salameh, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh, India
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A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh, India
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