5. STAGE 1: HALLIDAY AND HASAN’S COHESION ANALYSIS: THE STARTING POINT

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Focus: testing the validity and reliability of Halliday and Hasan’s taxonomy

5.3. The taxonomy: Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) Taxonomy of Cohesion

5.4. The corpus: abstracts of RAs

5.5. Methods of analysis

5.6. Results and discussion

5.7. Conclusions