Chapter 5. Discourse structure
This chapter provides a description of how LSC is organised beyond the sentence level, that is by considering its discourse structure. Discourse structure refers to the relations established between grammatical and lexical elements and their effects on the overall context. On the one hand, coherence is the property by which discourse is logically organised for the transmission of global meaning. On the other, cohesion is based on linguistic structures that link different parts of the context and provide cues to the addressee to keep track of the discourse referents. Finally, how the global information is introduced, namely with stretches of discourses being more or less salient, is also described.