Choesion and Coherence in the Provisions of the Legal Procedures Law and its Executive

Abstract

Objectives: This Research aimed to achieve three objectives, namely detecting aspects of cohesion within the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law, disclosing the manifestations of coherence therein the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law and highlighting the value of the textual study in revealing and understanding the interdependence and contents of provisions.

Methods: The study relied on the textual approach in this research, which focuses on studying and analyzing texts, and revealing textuality of texts, by studying the manifestations of consistency and harmony in the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law and its Executive Regulations.

Results: This research achieved several results, most notably: manifestation of cohesion in the Legal text, as in the use of referral and its impact on the cohesion of the text, presence of substitution, especially the verbal and the nominal, in addition to the presence of lexical consistency represented in both elements of repetition and cohesion. The results include also manifestation of coherence in the legal text, most notably, the context and its semantics and contents contributed to the harmony of the legal text, whether in the linguistic context, or in the situation context, as well as the manifestation of coherence through the use of semantic relations in the legal text.

Conclusions: The study revealed aspects of consistency and harmony in the system’s texts through analyzing and monitoring the most prominent phenomena in consistency, such as referral, substitution, and lexical consistency, as well as the most prominent phenomena in harmony such as context and semantic relationships. The study showed the impact of this on the system’s text.