Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

6.1 Results: Listing conjuncts
Listing conjuncts in general are either used for the enumeration of pieces 
of information in an order chosen by the author, in which case they are more 
specifically labelled 
enumerative conjuncts (cf. Table 2-1a), or they are applied 
to add pieces of information to one another, in which case they are known as 

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additive conjuncts (cf. Table 2-1b). As is evident from the tables, writers in both 
corpora apply enumerative conjuncts slightly more frequently than additive ones, 
and, moreover, non-native speakers of English use conjuncts of both semantic 
subclasses with double frequency of occurrence (2.11) when compared to native 
speakers (1.01). As regards the actual results given in Tables 2-1a and 2-1b, it 
should be noted that all conjuncts having a normalized frequency of occurrence 
higher than 0.1 tokens per 1,000 words are written in bold; this is also the case 
with all the other tables included in this chapter.