Coherence in spoken and written discourse john benjamins until very recently coherence unlike cohesion was widely held to be a amp8216rather mystical notionamp8217 however taking account of new trends representing a considerable shift in orientation this volume aims at helping relieve coherence of its mystifying aura. Coherence and cohesion in spoken and written discourse provides new insights into the various ways coherence works in a wide spread of spoken and written text types and interactional situations all of which point to the dynamics and subjectivity of its nature. Chapter five academic written discourse cohesion and coherence in written texts for professional and academic purposes milena krhutova 154 discourse approaches to specialised and popular academic english analysing adverbial clause connections. Means of coherence and cohesion in spoken and written discourse petra martinkova this paper deals with a linguistic experiment which has been conveyed following the research of coherence and cohesion in authentic written texts and spoken dialogues and monologues our research is based on spoken narratives to which speakers have. Various aspects of coherence and cohesion are investigated in diff erent types of discourse namely spoken interaction academic political discourse and newspaper discourse and fiction the