PART ONE : Questions that need answering

Chapter 1: Questions about cohesion

1. The aim of this book

2. The nature of cohesion

3. Questions concerning the place of cohesion

Question 1 : Cohesion and coherence

Question 2 : Cohesion and sentence relationships

Question 3 : Cohesion and text organization

4. Work relevant to the questions

Hasan (1984)

Winter (1974, 1979)

Phillips (1985)

5. A Way forward

Chapter 2 : A metaphor for text organization

2.1 The aim of this chapter

2.2 Sentence as a metaphor for text

2.3 An alternative metaphor

2.4 A simple example

The repetition links: sentence 1

The repetition links: sentence 2

The repetition links: sentence 3

The repetition links: sentence 4

2.5 A representation of the repetition patterning

2.6 Unwanted cohesion

2.7 Interpretation of the patterning : Central and marginal sentences

2.8 Interpretation of the patterning : common ground between sentences

2.9 Conclusions

PART TWO : Answers from text analysis

Chapter 3 : Types of repetition

3.1 The aim of this chapter

3.2 Repetiton as links

3.3 Simple lexical repetition

3.4 Complex lexical repetition

3.5 Text-forming versus chance lexical repetition

3.6 Simple paraphrase

4.1 The aim of this chapter

4.2 The data

4.3 Identification of repetition links

4.4 Construction of a repetition matrix

4.5 Creation of a net of bonds

4.6 An extension to the data

Chapter 5 : The significance of repetition nets

5.1 The aim of this chapter

5.2 The removal of certain features of cohesion

5.3 The net as record of bonding

5.4 Marginal sentences

5.5 Central sentences: Abridgement : procedure 2 (central sentences)

5.6 Topic opening and topic closing

Chapter 6 : Properties of the bonds of the nets

6.1 The aim of this chapter

6.2 Claims for the bonds

6.3 Testing the strong claim

6.4 Testing weak claim

6.5 Abrigement : Procedure 3 (topic-controlling sentences)

6.6 Distance bonding

Chapter 7 : How the links work

7.1 Tha aim of this chapter

7.2 How the pairs are related

7.3 Processes in the creation of parallelism

7.4 Exemplification of the processes of parallelism

PART THREE : Implications for theory and practice

Chapter 8 : Implications for a theory of language

8.1 The aim of this chapter

8.2 Claims about the nature of text

8.3 Text as structure versus text as organization

8.4 Halliday's map of language

8.5 The meaning of context in Halliday (1961)

8.6 A revision of Halliday's map of language

Chapter 9 : Implications for reading and writing

9.1 The aim of this chapter

9.2 The readers active role

9.3 typical reading purposes

9.4 Typical reading strategies

9.5 Reading quickly and reading carefully

9.6 Identifying relevant sentences

9.7 Getting sense out of a text

9.8 Rough and ready analysis

9.9 Reading for reference

9.10 The teaching of lexis

9.11 Repetition and writing

9.12 Conclusions