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1、10CohesioninEnglishThevariouskindsofcohesionhadbeenoutlinedbyMAKHallidayinhiswritingsonstylisticsandtheconceptwasdevelopedbyRuqayiaHasaninherUniversityofEdinburghdoctoralthesis.Cohesiverelationsarerelationsbetweentwoormoreelementsinatextthatareindependentofthestructure:forexampleb
2、etweenapersonalpronounandanantecedentpropername,suchasJohn….he.Asemanticrelationofthiskindmaybesetupeitherwithinasentencewiththeconsequencethatwhenitcrossesasentenceboundaryithastheeffectofmakingthetwosentencescoherewithoneanother.Themajorfunctionofcohesionistextformation.Asdefine
3、d:textisaunifiedwholeoflinguisticitems,thisunityoftextasasemanticwholeissourcefortheconceptofcohesion.Sofirstwewillexploretheconceptoftext.TextTextinlinguisticsreferstoanypassagespokenwrittenofwhateverlengththatformsaunifiedwhole.Areadercaneasilyidentifywhetherthepassageheisreadin
4、gisatextorotherwiseacollectionofunrelatedsentences.Atextmaybe:spoken,written,prose,verse,dialogue,monologue,singleproverb,asinglecryforhelporalldaydiscussiononacommittee.Atextisaunitoflanguageinuse.Agrammaticalunitthatislargerthanasentence.Atextisnotsomethingthatislikeasentenceonl
5、ybiggerorlarger.Itismisleading.Rathertextcanbebestdefinedasasemanticunit;aunitnotofformbutofmeaning.Ifitissemanticunit,wewillnotexpecttofinditinstructureofasentenceasagrammaticalunitasphrase,clauseetc.Sotextisnotconsistofsentencebutitisrealizedbysentenceorencodedinsentences.Therea
6、recertainobjectivefactorsinvolvedthatconstituteatext.ConstituentsofText1.Texture:2.Ties:3.Cohesion1.Texture:Textureisthatfeatureoftextwhichmadeitaunifiedwhole.Accordingto‘TheConciseOxfordDictionaryofLinguisticsbyP.H.Mathews’cohesionandcoherencearesourceswhichcreatetexture.Crystala
7、dds‘informativeness’tocohesionandcoherence.Example:Washandcoresixcookingapples.Putthemintoafireproofdish.Herethemreferencebacktosixcookingapplestocreatecohesionbetweenthetwosentences.Herewemakeapresuppositionabouttherelationshipbetweenthemandsixcookingapplesbutitisnotenoughonlytom
8、akeapresuppositionratherthatpresu
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