Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

particular readers make of a news report and what kind of view or attitude they 
adopt is a far more complex issue which goes far beyond the traditional ‘encode/
decode’ process. 
To sum up, all these factors support the above-mentioned view that coherence, 
i.e. “the underlying functional connectedness or identity of a piece of spoken or 
written language” (Crystal 2008: 62), is not a property of text itself but rather 
a more dynamic concept constituted by linguistic and situational, social and 
cultural context in which both the sender and the recipient play a central role. 
Cohesion, i.e. “the syntactic or semantic connectivity of linguistic forms at a 

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surface-structure level of analysis” (Crystal 2008: 62-63), aids the process of 
meaning interpretation by the receiver. Meaning interpretation is inevitably 
connected with and enhanced by the knowledge of certain established (albeit 
subconscious) patterns by the reader, many of which are often 
genre-specific and