1.Introduction
When addressing language cohesion,an attempt must be made to identify how language is used to create cohesive and coherent communication,or how one utterance follows another.William Labov describes the task at hand,stating that ‘the fundamental problem of discourse analysis1 is to show how one utterance follows another in a rational,rule governed manner-in other words,how we understand coherent discourse’.2 This paper will attempt to provide a brief study of textual cohesion in the Late Ramesside Letters,a collection of over seventy papyri sent between the inhabitants of the Theban west bank during the reign of Ramesses Ⅺ (c.1099-1069 BC),3 which are written in Late Egyptian Hieratic.