The paper considers cohesion of texts and discourse in the perspective of corpus linguistics. Being one of the main features of texts, it has a sophisticated character and is a challenge for corpus annotating, both automatic and manual. The research deals with cohesion of interrogatory discourse and is aimed at setting up problems for its special tagging. The authors of the paper have designed a probable variant of an algorithm to analyze cohesion in interrogatory contexts, specified three main tasks correlating with key stages and including subordinate tasks. A set of indices to be applied in tagging has been worked out as well. The authors illustrate the algorithm with examples of interrogatory contexts from the novel by Graham Swift “Waterland” which is characterized by high frequency of interrogatory utterances, on the one hand, and a highly dense cohesion web, on the other. It is explained how to identify limits of interrogatory contexts in order to formalize their analysis. The classification of indices for tagging lingual means of cohesion and its kinds is provided. The interrogatory utterance is analyzed as a means of cohesion itself as well. Parallel, consequential and adjoining kinds of cohesion are illustrated, accompanied with a system of indices for their tagging.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationScience and Global Challenges of the 21st Century - Science and Technology - Proceedings of the International Perm Forum “Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century”
EditorsAlvaro Rocha, Ekaterina Isaeva
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages604-613
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030894764
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventInternational Perm Forum on Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century, 2021 - Perm, Russian Federation
Duration: 18 Oct 202123 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume342 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

ConferenceInternational Perm Forum on Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century, 2021
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityPerm
Period18/10/2123/10/21

    Research areas

  • Analysis of cohesion in interrogatory contexts, Innovative algorithm of cohesion analysis, Smart technologies in discourse analysis, Tagging cohesion, Tagging for corpus analysis, Tagging interrogatory contexts

    Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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