It Takes Two to Cohere

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. About the Authors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: How to (Re-)Create Coherence: Means of Coherence
7. Coherent Voicing 11
8. It Takes Two to Cohere 35
9. Learning to Cohere 55
10. Coherence through Understanding through Discourse Patterns 77
11. Semiotic Spanning at Conferences 101
12. Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour 125
13. Part II: How to Negotiate Coherence: Degrees of Coherence
14. Disturbed Coherence 153
15. Coherence and Misunderstanding in Everyday Conversations 175
16. The Effect of Context in the Definition and Negotiation of Coherence 189
17. Coherence in Summary 205
18. Coherence in Hypertext 221
19. Part III: How to describe Coherence: Views of Coherence
20. Communicative Intentions and Coherence Relations 235
21. If Coherence Is Achieved, Then Where Doth Meaning Lie? 251
22. A Bibliography of Coherence and Cohesion 267
23. Index 297