Syntactic parallelism as a means of cohesion and a way to create a "necessary" coherence for an author of detective genre texts

Sokolova A. V.

The article is devoted to determining the role and functions of using syntactic parallelism as a means of creating a correct cohesion and necessary coherence for an author of detective genre texts based on the examples from the works of A.C. Doyle. The author of the article notes an important role of syntactic parallelism as a means of motivating authors of detective genre texts to its more frequent and correct use, and recipients of such texts – to complex deduction, development of imagination, and triggering more powerful cognitive processes, which can potentially occur in the consciousness of an individual.

Keywords:cohesion, coherence, syntactic parallelism, stylistics, detective genre, text.