COHESION AND CONNECTION – JAPANESE DATA

Abstract

Connection in rhetoric structure of a text is supported not only by specialized connectives, but also in part by other means, including cohesion devices, such as topic markers, elision, anaphor and lexical repetition or substitution. This paper offers an overview of the role of such linguistic means in establishing of rhetoric structure, exemplified in a piece of Japanese fiction. As a result, notable contributions are posited for cohesive devices in supporting a group of connection types such as Contrast, Elaboration and Equivalence.

Keywords

• японский язык
• когезия
• коннектор
• логические связи
• japanese language
• cohesion
• connective
• rhetoric structure