Coherence, regarded as a context-based interpretative property of discourse, is a complex phenomenon encompassing conceptual connectedness, evaluative and dialogical consistency and textual relatedness. This paper focuses on topical coherence, which is related to the relevancy of the interaction to a discourse topic and is typically associated with thematic, action frame, spatio-temporal and participant continuity. The investigation is carried out on a corpus of opening addresses delivered in the UNESCO context, and explores how politicians try to impose on the audience an interpretative perception of the semantic unity and purposefulness of their discourse which reflects their context-dependent communicative intentions. The analysis relates topical coherence to the rhetorical structure of addresses and argues that topic continuity based on the hierarchy of discourse topics, the pattern of thematic progression, and temporal, spatial and referential continuity, is closely interwoven with coherence on the interpersonal and textual planes of discourse.
Topical coherence in political speeches
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