List of publications on a keyword: «coherence»

Modern electronic communication offers people new texts in different spheres of knowledge and in different utilitarian spheres. Most of these texts are hypertexts that have a multi-layered structure and consist of integrated microtexts. The purpose of this investigation is to give definitions to hypertext, consider its features, peculiarities of its structure, its types and functions. According to the analysis, hypertext is characterized by coherence, meaningfulness, informativeness and combination of verbal and non-verbal means.

The purpose of the study is to examine the characteristics of the sense of coherence in cardiac patients after myocardial infarction. To achieve this goal the short form of the Antonovsky’s Sense of Coherence Questionnaire was used in this study. The results showed that sense of coherence was stronger in men with myocardial infarction compared with women who had a myocardial infarction.

The subject of this research is zeugma, as a mean of creating comic effect in short jokes. Zeugmas are analysed from the point of view of their morphological structures, syntactic structures and semantics. The article contains the description of zeugmas structural variants depending on presence/absence of valence, and type of zeugma according to its semantic coherence.