mạch văn
Definition
- Noun:
- The flow or thread of writing: The continuous, logical, and coherent progression of ideas, arguments, or narrative in a written text. It refers to how sentences and paragraphs are connected to form a smooth, unbroken stream of thought.
- Literary lineage: A less common meaning referring to the tradition or succession of writers within a family or school of thought.
Usage Examples
- Noun (flow of writing):
- Bài văn của anh ấy có mạch văn rất trôi chảy và dễ theo dõi. (His essay has a very smooth and easy-to-follow flow of writing.)
- Đoạn văn này bị đứt mạch văn; các ý không liên kết với nhau. (This paragraph has a broken flow; the ideas are not connected to each other.)
- Noun (literary lineage):
- Ông ấy thuộc mạch văn của những nhà thơ lãng mạn thế kỷ 19. (He belongs to the literary lineage of 19th-century romantic poets.)
Advanced Usage
- "giữ mạch văn": to maintain the flow of writing.
- Người viết giỏi biết cách giữ mạch văn xuyên suốt tác phẩm. (A good writer knows how to maintain the flow of writing throughout the work.)
- "mạch văn ngắt quãng": disjointed or interrupted flow of writing.
- Sự thiếu liên kết ý dẫn đến mạch văn ngắt quãng. (A lack of connection between ideas leads to a disjointed flow of writing.)
Variants and Related Words
- Mạch lạc (adj): coherent, logical (often used to describe clear and well-connected speech or writing).
- Bài thuyết trình của cô ấy rất mạch lạc. (Her presentation is very coherent.)
- Mạch ý: the flow of ideas (a closely related concept focusing on the progression of thoughts rather than the written expression itself).
Synonyms
- Coherence: The quality of being logical and consistent.
- Flow: The smooth, uninterrupted progression of a text.
- Thread: A theme or line of thought that connects parts of a narrative.
- Lineage: (For the second meaning) descent from an ancestral line.
Related Concepts
- Liên kết văn bản: text cohesion – the grammatical and lexical linking within a text.
- Bố cục: structure or composition – the arrangement of parts in a written work, which directly influences the .