Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts

By using van Dijk’s concept of coherence and bringing it together with my Principle of meaning iconicity, we have a new way of looking at incoherence in texts. The principle says that closely related information is meaningfully related on a pragmatic level, an instruction to the reader to relate th...

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Main Author: Ib Ulbaek
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Language:English
Published: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin 2016-12-01
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5645
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description By using van Dijk’s concept of coherence and bringing it together with my Principle of meaning iconicity, we have a new way of looking at incoherence in texts. The principle says that closely related information is meaningfully related on a pragmatic level, an instruction to the reader to relate the information to each other. It is demonstrated by textual analysis that the concept of coherence can be used analytically by dividing it into first and second order coherence. First order coherence is the usual concept of coherence: sentences are connected by cohesive links and related by causality, time etc. Second order coherence is a way of organizing text by using incoherence as a way of organizing text into chunks of coherent parts. It is shown how readers can detect these structures in the text by detecting the incoherence even without the layout of the text to signal structure (e.g. indention of paragraphs).
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spelling doaj-art-6d57de9602b542759b44a55e5f809ff82025-01-21T05:10:11ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882016-12-012110.31743/lingbaw.5645Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in textsIb Ulbaek0University of Copenhagen By using van Dijk’s concept of coherence and bringing it together with my Principle of meaning iconicity, we have a new way of looking at incoherence in texts. The principle says that closely related information is meaningfully related on a pragmatic level, an instruction to the reader to relate the information to each other. It is demonstrated by textual analysis that the concept of coherence can be used analytically by dividing it into first and second order coherence. First order coherence is the usual concept of coherence: sentences are connected by cohesive links and related by causality, time etc. Second order coherence is a way of organizing text by using incoherence as a way of organizing text into chunks of coherent parts. It is shown how readers can detect these structures in the text by detecting the incoherence even without the layout of the text to signal structure (e.g. indention of paragraphs). https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5645text linguisticscoherencetext analysispragmatics
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Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
LingBaW
text linguistics
coherence
text analysis
pragmatics
title Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
title_full Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
title_fullStr Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
title_full_unstemmed Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
title_short Second Order Coherence: A new way of looking at incoherence in texts
title_sort second order coherence a new way of looking at incoherence in texts
topic text linguistics
coherence
text analysis
pragmatics
url https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5645
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