The Role of Temporal Connective Factors in Text Cohesion

In Holiday’s theory the connective factors are discussed as one of the factorsof textual coherence or the factors of connection between sentences of a text.These are the factors, that place between two sentences or the first part of themand connect them with each other. The most famous of all these elements inPersian language are the conjunctions; but also other elements such as adverband prepositions operate as the connective factor in a text that their operation isexatly the same as the conjunctions. Generally, we can devide the connectivefactors into four groups: A) additional connection, includes: naїve, compound,couplet, explicative, allegorical B) contrastive connection, includes: naїve,compound, couplet C) casual connection, includes: prosaic, reverse D) temporalconnection, includes: sequential, synchronic, referential, teleological. In thisarticle we just have discussed the latter factor, the temporal connective factor. Inthis factor, the time and temporal sequence play an important role in connectingthe sentences of a text with each other. Also these elements sometimes connect thesentences structurally which doesn’t affect on the coherence.