A major ingredient of textuality is cohesion. A text is not a text unless it coheres. But different text types do not cohere in the same way. In thispaper, we foats on one type ofcohesive tie, conjuction, and compare its use in four different American English genres -fiction, journalism, religion, and science. Our results show that methods of conjunction in these genres vary in a statistically significant way and that conjunctions, althoughfew in number of types and tokens, play a major wie in structuring these different text types.
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