Rethinking Coherence
Rethinking Coherence

Summary/Abstract: In teaching presentation skills to students, we have so many times come across the misconception that delivering a presentation is mostly (if not entirely) about verbal communication. Surprisingly enough, it is not. Presentations need to be perceived as dynamic, complex communicative events with an intended impact on their listeners and not as a monologue (which, by its nature, fails to reach the audience). We have decided to approach a certain property of discourse –coherence – and apply it to a broader context that would bring together the elements of this communicative event of delivering presentations. The present paper tackles some of the most important extratextual elements that frame coherence, as we understand it.

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