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Narrative Discourse Coding: Cohesion in Children’s Narratives

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Both Case and colleagues and Fischer and colleagues have studied narrative development in relation to their Neo-Piagetian stage models. This chapter and the next provide detailed coding schemes of cohesion and coherence that could help better understand the relationship between cognitive and narrative development. Halliday and Hasan (1976) have formulated a comprehensive model of cohesion from a functional linguistic perspective. However, research on cohesion use in children that investigates multiple aspects of their model is rare. In this chapter, I explain their model and how it has been used, and I describe a comprehensive coding scheme that organizes it into a usable system with children.

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Young, G. (2011). Narrative Discourse Coding: Cohesion in Children’s Narratives. In: Development and Causality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9422-6_33

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