In this book, and for the purposes of translation, it makes more sense to take a broader view of cohesion and to consider any element cohesive as long as it signals a conjunctive-type relation between parts of a text, whether these parts are sentences, clauses (dependent or independent), or paragraphs.On the basis of the world view uncovered by the shaman's faculties, with its vision of another and miraculous plane which could interact causally with our own, the more advanced mystical intuitions of esoteric Buddhism were able to develop.The following example from A Study of Shamanistic Practices in Japan (Appendix 5) illustrates the use of conjunction in text:
The shamanic practices we have investigated are rightly seen as an archaic mysticism.Also, since conjunction is a device for signalling relations between chunks of information, it is naturally bound up with both the chunking of information, how much to say in one go, and with how the relations between such chunks of information are perceived and signalled.In fact, the use of conjunction provides an insight into the whole logic of discourse (Smith and Frawley, 1983).