Applied Stylistics II

Textual Cohesion and Coherence



This course will help students become familiar with certain linguistics mechanisms that build coherence/cohesion within a text: lexical and grammatical substitutes, alternating “thème/rhème”, modal qualifiers and argumentative connectors. We will analyze these linguistic and textual processes. Students will write various short texts: descriptive, explicative, and argumentative. The purpose of the course is to reach clarity and to express nuances using textual analysis and producing written texts.



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Annick ENGLEBERT, Le mot juste pour organiser ses idées et bien les formuler, 4ème édition, Deboeck Supérieur 2022, ISBN 978-2-8073-3949-1