Textual semantic progression

Abstract

A text is a complex syntactic whole that expresses the exhaustion of thought as a linguistic unit. As a whole, it is supposed to consist of a large number of components and sentences which make it up. Sentences that are components of the text should serve both the general semantics and the structure of the text. The text must have interrelationships between its components in order to perform its communicative function. So sentences that express relative exhaustion serve a common text semantics, macrothemes, as well as microthemes by interacting with other sentences entering the text. By
examining these types of connections between components, they can be classified in two ways: cohesive
relationship and coherence relationship between sentences. In other words, meaning and structural
connection. The syntactic structure and form of the text are defined as a cohesive connection, and the semantic connection is defined as a coherent connection realized by cohesive means.
The coherence of the sentences that follows cohesion in the text through the logical-semantic connection ensuring the internal textual connection is also known as semantic progression in linguistics. The term was first coined by N.R. Wolf (2001/2002).
Mann / Thompson (1986) studied semantic progression and proposed provisions on its main types. According to the research of these linguists, a number of non-linguistic elements are important for the expression of coherence in semantic progression. The study classifies coherence relationships or semantic progression between conjunctions and identified sentences.