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Dominique Legallois, « Des phrases entre elles à l'unité réticulaire du texte », Langages, ID : 10.3406/lgge.2006.2683
Dominique Legallois : From sentences to the reticulate organisation of texts This chapter explores lexical répétition and its text-organizing function in French written discourse (non-narrative texts). On the basis of Patterns of lexis in text (1991) by M. Hoey, I show how an analysis of lexical relations in texts can reveal the relatedness of adjacent or nonadjacent sentences, which produce elaborate patternings, and reticulate organisations. In this way, lexial units, sentences, nets, and hypotexts constitute the units of text.