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1、CohesiveDifferencebetweenChineseandEnglishTextsAsweallknow,duetothedifferencesofthinkingandculture,thesyntaxesofEnglishandChinesearequitedifferent.Inthefollowingpaper,IwouldliketoanalyzeasampletranslationfromChinesetoEnglishintheperspectiveoffunctionalsyntax,withtheemphasisonitstextualcohesionandcoh
2、erence,andtotryfindingoutsomecohesivedifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishconcerningthisaspectandthereasonsbehind.ThesampletextcomesfromZhufu（theNewYearSacrifice）writtenbyLuxunandtranslatedbyYangXianyiandGladysYang.(1)“OfallthepeopleIhadseenduringthisvisittoLuzhen,nonehadchangedsomuchasshehad.(2)Herha
3、ir,streakedwithgrayfiveyearsbefore,wasnowcompletelywhite,makingherappearmucholderthanonearoundforty.(3)Hersallow,dark-tingedfacethatlookedasifithadbeencarvedoutofwoodwasfearfullywastedandhadlostthegrief-strickenexpressionithadbornebefore.(4)Theonlysignoflifeaboutherwastheoccasionalflickerofhereyes.(
4、5)Inonehandshehadabamboobasketcontainingaclipped,emptybowl;intheother,abamboopole,tallerthanherself,thatwassplitatthebottom.(6)Shehadclearlybecomeabeggarpureandsimple.”Thisselectedtextisthedescriptionof“her”(Xianglin’sWife’s)appearance.Thefirstclause,adeclarativeone,playsakeyroleinorganizingthetext,
5、foritisthetopicsentenceofthisparagraph.Clauses(2),(3),(4),(5)elaborateonthissentencefromdifferentaspectsbydescribingXiangLin’sWife’shair,face,eyesandthingsinherhand.Themainclausesof(2),(3),(4)areallintheneatrelationalprocess.Thefirstsentencebeginswithanadjunctasthetheme—“ofallthepeople…”,whichlistso
6、utthechoicescopetothefollowingpronoun---“none”.Here,“she”isanendophoricreference(anaphoric).Accordingtothecontext,“she”referstoXiangLin’sWife.(2)and(3)arebothattributiverelationalprocess.In(2),anattributiveclauseisusedtodescribeXianglin’swife’shair5yearsbefore,andtheadjective“gray”constitutesacontra
7、stwiththepredicative“white”onthemainclause.Thefollowingadverbialtellsaboutwhatthewhitehairhascausedtoherappearance.Inmyopinion,thereisacontextually-determinedellipsis(whichis)beforetheword“streaking”,
