Coherence and cohesion in spoken and written discourse olga dontcheva navratilova and renata povolna 9781443813082 books amazonca. They share a number of theoretical and methodoligical assumptions and reflect a trend in text and discourse analysis to move away from reducing coherence to a product of formally represented cohesion and or semantically established connectivity. Written discourse cohesion and coherence 1 starting point otextthe record of some speakers or writers discourse uttered or written in some context and for some purpose ocontext no texts are constructed in isolation language is a social practice 2 omeaning is dependent on the context the events and situational factors in which acts of communication are embedded ie the . On the other hand semantics explores the relationship between syntactic structures and therefore grammatical categories building phrases sentences and clauses and the logical relationship between them in a text by means of coherence and cohesion having as a result the whole text under the shape of a pragmatic coherent discourse 233