Coherence concerns the way in which the things that the text is about (the

textual world), are mutually accessible and relevant. The textual world consists
of concepts (cognitive content) and relations (the link between the concepts).
Following Beaugrande and Dressler, some of the most common relations can be
classified in terms of two major notions:

Causality relations: the way in which a situation affects the conditions

for some other. There are four types:

o Cause
o Enablement
o Reason
o Purpose
Time relations, which concern the arrangement of events in time. In
cause, enablement and reason forward directionality is involved as an
earlier event provides the reason for a later one. Purpose, on the
contrary, has backward directionality, since a later event is the purpose
for an earlier event.