The Thought Occurs

Tuesday, 8 October 2019

External vs Internal Cohesive Conjunction

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 611):
Relations between representations of segments of experience are called external relations, and conjunctions marking such relations are called external conjunctions. … 
Relations linking text segments in their interpersonal guise are called internal relations – internal to the text as a speech event, and conjunctions marking such relations are called internal conjunctions.