Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

Newspaper discourse

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CHAPTER FIVE
Coherence and cohesion in newspaper discourse with 
a focus on crime reports in the modern British press
Renata Jančaříková
Abstract
Newspaper discourse, although written and monologic, is a form of communication 
and social interaction during which an exchange of information takes place, and thus it 
naturally encompasses meaning creation and meaning interpretation. Despite no direct 
contact between the sender and the recipient a specific form of interaction determined 
to a certain extent by the 
genre takes place between the interactants, albeit of different 
and distinct character in comparison with spoken interaction. Since the present study 
aims to map some crucial aspects of the process of news consumption including meaning 
interpretation, it examines a range of features of coherence and cohesion in newspaper 
discourse with a focus on crime reports in order to demonstrate that both coherence 
and cohesion aid readers considerably in the process of making sense of newspaper 
discourse.