Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

The most typical conjuncts found in the non-native speakers’ corpus
(NNSC) include the following 
twelve types of conjuncts
and their semantic 
classes:
5 appositive conjuncts:
i.e
. (1.87)
, e.g. 
(1.09)
, namely 
(0.48)
, for example 
(0.43) and
in other words
(0.33); 
2-3 resultive/inferential conjuncts:
thus 
(1.06)
, therefore 
(0.76), and
 then 
(0.28);
2-3 contrastive/concessive conjuncts:
however 
(1.57),
 conversely 
and
 on the other hand 
and
 still
(0.16); 
2 listing conjuncts:
moreover 
(0.36), 
then
(0.31) and 
finally 
(0.29);
1 or no transitional conjunct:
now
(0.16); 
No summative conjunct.

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Note: The transitional conjunct 
now
is listed above because its normalized frequency of 
occurrence is the same as that of the contrastive/concessive conjuncts 
conversely
, 
on the 
other hand 
and
 still
, which means that these four conjuncts can alternate.
Here follows one typical example from the non-native speakers’ corpus; it 
includes in order of mention one resultive/inferential conjunct 
thus
, two appositive 
conjuncts 
i.e.
and 
for example
and one contrastive/concessive conjunct 
still
, all 
listed in the above survey of the conjuncts most characteristic of the NNSC.
(1) NNSC, Text 5
The main factual questions that a crime report should answer are what 
happened to whom. The event itself and the participants thus
 have the 
greatest likelihood of becoming central to crime news. With murder cases, 
which this analysis focuses on, the main participants that will naturally 
be contrasted in crime reports are the core participants, i.e.
 the victim 
and the criminal/offender.
A person can be identified by, for example
, his or her name, age, 
profession, social status or nationality. 
Still
, the effect that each of these 
types of reference provides about the same person may not carry the same 
message to the reader.