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When I talk about a break down in semantic cohesion I am referring to a
situation where the **lexical** semantic values assigned to the low level
constituents in a discourse segment do not work together coherently. The
text analyst is tempted in a situation like this to look at alternatives to
these assignments in order to resolve the problem and in some cases we end
up with a forced fit; a reading where dubious semantic values are used with
less than adequate justification because the analyst is compelled to find a
semanticly cohesive text.
I see this happening all the time.
Discourse cohesion is something that can be attained somewhat independent of
semantic content. You can have a cohesive discourse segment as defined by
Halliday and Hasan which has no coherent meaning. ...
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