a study on grammatical cohesion in the texts of new concept english 4

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1、AStudyonGrammaticalCohesionintheTextsofNewConceptEnglish4　　Abstract：SinceHallidayandHasan’sworkCohesioninEnglish（1976）waspublished，“cohesion”becomesahottopic，whichisclassifiedintogrammaticalcohesionandlexicalcohesion.ThisthesisstudiesgrammaticalcohesioninNewConceptEnglish4，andtriesto

2、findoutuniversalgrammaticalcohesivedevicesappliedinEnglishtextbook，whichcouldhelpEnglishteachersandlearnershaveabetterunderstandingoftextsintheirEnglishtextbooks.　　Keywords：grammaticalcohesion，NewConceptEnglish4，grammaticalcohesivedevices　　1.StudyProcedure　　Thewriterfirstlycollectsth

3、edatafromtheNCE4，whichinclude10texts，altogether2659wordsandthenreviewsHallidayandHasan’scohesiontheory.Consequently，thewritercalculatedthefrequencyofeachgrammaticalcohesivedeviceinthesetentexts.Allisdonemanually，sotheresultswouldbepersuasive.Fourthly，thewriterputsomefrequenciesintota

4、blestomaketheyaremoreclearlytobeseen.Finally，thewriterdescribesandanalyzesthecollecteddatasoastoexplainthedistributionsofgrammaticalcohesive7devicesandtheirfunctionsintheselectedtexts.TheresultscanbeservedastheuniversalfeaturesofNCE4，andevenofallEnglishtextbooks.　　2.Grammaticalcohesi

5、onintheTextsofNewConceptEnglish4　　2.1AnalysisofReference　　Referenceconsistsofpersonalreference，demonstrativereferenceandcomparativereference.Tomakethestudymoreconvincing，eachtypeisillustratedwithnumbersandexamples.　　2.1.1PersonalReference　　NCE4prefertousepersonalreferenceoffirstperso

6、nsingularform，thirdpersonsingularformandsecondpersonpluralform.Possessivepronounsarenotappliedinthechosentexts.Thesetextsusepossessivedeterminersoffirst，second，thirdpersonasmodifiers，suchasmy，our，his，her，their.Thehighfrequencyofthey，it，youdemonstratesthepersonalreference’sanaphoricfu

7、nctionbecausewhensomethingispointedoutinthefirstplace，thesepersonalpronounsareusedtorefertowhatismentionedbeforethem.Theapplicationofpersonalreferencemakeseachsentencecombinedtogether，whichcanimproveourunderstandingofthewholetext.Thereisanexampleinthechosentexts：（1）“Wecanreadofthings

8、thathappened