Exploring the Concept of Emergent Coherence in a Corpus of Korean ESL Texts (7, 376 words, including 159-word abstract) Terence Patrick Murphy Department of English College of Liberal Arts Yonsei University Seoul, Republic of Korea 120-749 Dept of English Tel. 82-2-2123-2300 Dept of English Fax: 82-02-392-0275 tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr Home Tel. 82-2-391-4307 (with answering machine) January 2008 REVISED SEPTEMBER 2008 Biographical Note: Dr. Terence Patrick Murphy is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He has written widely on both the stylistics of fiction and second language writing in such journals as Language Learning and Technology; JNT: Journal of Narrative Technique; Style; Narrative; Language and Literature, Cultural Critique, and the Journal of Literary Semantics.