Abstract:

This paper attempts to identify how “cohesion” as an integral component of textuality operates in the story of A Cat in the Rain by Hemingway. Despite the diversified works explored concerning grammatical cohesion, the studies related to cohesion with its all aspects is limited. To this end, it is clear that further investigation is needed in operation of grammatical devices with the variety of aspects of cohesion providing cohesion in the literary works. For this purpose, the literature related to the concept of cohesion has been addressed, and cohesive devices in this story have been analyzed where the focus will cover both the grammatical and lexical “wealth of cohesion”. The focus has been on microstructure which concentrates on grammatical and lexical aspects through the distribution/frequency of the cohesive devices. In this study, the criteria of textuality given by Dressler has been adressed, and then the concepts of cohesion and coherence have been discussed, finally Hemingway’s short story called A Cat in The Rain, has been analyzed from the point of grammatical cohesion in view of Dressler and Halliday. The results indicate that the short story under analysis complies with the textual elements.