Scary Words # 20: Grounding & Coherence

(Book: Wood, L.A. & Kroger. R.O. (2000). Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.)

“Grounding is concerned with the relationship between the analysis and the text. […] In contrast, coherence concerns the nature of the analysis, or, more precisely, the entire set of claims that are made. Grounding can be seen as a textual criterion (about the text), whereas coherence is an analytic criterion (about the analysis).” (p. 173)