La cohesión léxica como indicador de las categorías esquemáticas del artículo de prensa

  1. Díaz Galán, Ana
Journal:
Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

ISSN: 0211-5913

Year of publication: 2002

Issue: 44

Pages: 245-262

Type: Article

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Abstract

By means of a news item, this article tries to establish a connection between the semantic patterns of textual organization created by the lexical cohesive devices of a text, as described by M. Hoey (1991), and other types of more formal or structural approaches to discourse, such as the classic description of news categories proposed by van Dijk (1985, 1988, 1990, etc.). The comparison of these apparently opposing views about text unity not only proves them compatible, contradicting one of M. Hoey’s tenets, but, at the same time, supports the interdependence of two, equally antithetic, theoretical concepts associated with them: cohesion and coherence.