This volume uses 6 studies which chronicle linguistic work in Brazil from the second half of the 20th century. By means of different and complementary routes, it presents the decisive moments in language research from the moment when Brazil thought, focusing on generating knowledge about the Portuguese language, established contact with Europe.

The twin concepts of cohesion and coherence have, for a long time, crystallised the key issues of text linguistics. By illustrating the way in which these notions work and are articulated, we put under the spotlight this field which makes textual linguistics a recognisable discipline between pure syntax and discourse analysis.