The Mechanisms Of Lexical Consistency And Their Effect On The Coherence Of The Prose Text The Story (What Is Your Name?) As a Model

This study is one of the topics of textual linguistics, Where the study dealt with lexical coherence or consistency in a prose text, the mechanisms of lexical consistency in linking prose discourse to the story (You are your name?) As a model, This is based on the study of the lexical relationships between the vocabulary of the text, through the study of two important phenomena that have an impact on the interconnectedness of the text, namely (repetition and Collocation), And revealing their role that contributes to the consistency of the text of this story, which is a story in a collection of stories by Bahaa Taher entitled (I did not know that peacocks fly); Therefore, the research was divided into three sections, the first of which is the definition of consistency, the second of them is repetition, and the third of them is Collocation. In conclusion, the study reached the availability of lexical relationships in the story, And the means of lexical consistency contributed to repetition and Collocation in linking the parts of the text, there were many repetitions of all kinds in the story, Which had an important role in the consistency and linking of parts of the text, Which led to the unity of the subject of the story, and this repetition was not spontaneous, but rather was deliberate to build a coherent text indicating the child's extreme rebellion, The cohesion of all kinds also contributed to the consistency of the text of the story, so the contradiction and the relationship of the part to the whole and the part to the part had a clear effect in linking the parts of the text.