with it and sealed using the pronouns that, these.
The semantic cohesion of the text is a semantic relation of its components on the
basis of common content of the consistent text fragments and the individually included
elements. It can be carried out without the use of externally defined communications
[31, 32]. The situational cohesion is a sub-type of the semantic cohesion; the criterion
to identify which is the principle of “unity of the situation.” The situational cohesion
can be detected indirectly as the predictable thematic proximity between the fragments
of the text, the very fact of inclusion of which into one text illustrates their semantic
proximity [31].
We understand the semantic cohesion of the author`s digression with the text as a
logical-semantic relation of the elements of the text on the basis of common content.
Semantic unity of the text and the author`s digression can be traced in the lexical
and synonym repetitions. “So that the language was clear, logically-ordered, we cannot
do without the repetition of words, their forms and derivatives of these words, because
their use is associated with the structure organization. The meaning of the lexical
repetition provides an expression of the present or semantic dismemberment of the
language.” [33].
Thus, in the following text we can see the duplication of the lexical item “hate”
in the author`s digression and in the sentence of the main story:
“How many people have to die before you realise”? But I could tell that it was a
hopeless argument. “Realize what, Thomas”?
“That there's no such thing as gratitude in politics” At least they won't hate us
like they hate the French. “Are you sure”?
Sometimes we have a kind of love for our enemies and sometimes we feel hate for
our friends.
“You talk like a European, Thomas. These people aren't complicated”. “Is that
what you've learned in a few months? You'll be calling them childlike next”. “Well in
away…” [20].
The main story sentence contains information about the relationship between
people and government representatives (At least they won't hate us like they hate the
French), what was verbalized by a lexical item hate.
Let us consider the following example of the author`s digression from the novel
by Kipling “The Light That Failed”:
This is a good, and since it allows, and even encourages, strife, recrimination,
and the most brutal sincerity, does not die, but increases, and is proof against any
absence and evil conduct [30].
In the author`s digression the author characterizes the male friendship that is
verbalized in the text phrase a good love. The author passes two ways approaching to
this phenomenon through the tougher lexicon brutal sincerity. But the author remains
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