COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF COHESION AND COHERENCE IN SAKI’S (H.H. MUNRO) “THE OPEN WINDOW”

Abstract

This paper examines the cognitive processes involved in interpreting cohesion and coherence in Saki’s short story, The Open Window. Cohesion refers to the surface-level connections between sentences through linguistic devices such as pronouns, conjunctions, and lexical repetition, while coherence is the deeper, logical relationship that gives the text meaning as a unified whole. Saki’s narrative is an exemplar of strategic storytelling, employing a layered structure that manipulates both explicit and implicit linguistic cues.