Copyright Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Present state of discourse studies -- 1.2. Theoretical model -- 1.3. Place of discourse structure in the stratificational model -- 1.4. Cohesion as a linguistic concept allowing the study of discourse features on the grammatic stratum -- 1.5. Purpose of the present study -- 1.6. Restriction of the linguistic data -- 2. Theoretical basis for the study of cohesion -- 2.1. General remarks -- 2.2. Stratificational model -- 2.3. Semologic structure -- 3. Descriptive framework for the study of cohesion -- 3.1. Order as cohesive factor -- 3.2. Cohesive features -- 3.3. Anaphora -- 3.4. Coordination and subordination -- 3.5. Enation and agnation -- 3.6. Lexical cohesion -- 3.7. Cohesive features not studied -- 4. Cohesion in James -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Cohesion in pairs of adjacent sentences and between clauses of individual sentences in James' paragraph -- 4.3. Overall cohesion in the paragraph -- 4.4. Summary discussion of cohesion in James' paragraph -- 5. Cohesion in Hemingway -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Cohesion in adjacent sentences -- 5.3. Cohesion between clauses -- 5.4. Overall cohesion in the passage -- 5.5. Hemingway's characteristic lexical cohesion -- 6. Implications and Conclusions -- 6.1. Cohesive features in literary texts -- 6.2. Cohesive choices and style -- 6.3. Cohesive features and discourse structure -- 6.4. Grammatical forms in view of cohesive features -- 6.5. Summary -- Appendix I : Excerpt from The Portrait of a Lady -- Appendix II: Excerpt from "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" -- Bibliography -- Index.