Analysis of Cohesion in Chinese and English Introductions to Tourist Attractions

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1、AnalysisofCohesioninChineseandEnglishIntroductionstoTouristAttractions　　Abstract：Withthetheoreticalbasisofcohesion，thepresentresearchmakesanattempttoanalyzeChineseandEnglishintroductionstotouristattractions，withanaimtofindingoutthecohesivedifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishint

2、roductionstotouristattractions.　　KeyWords：cohesion，introductionstotouristattractions　　1.Introduction　　Asamysteriousorientalcountryenjoyingafive-thousand-yearhistory，Chinaisincreasinglyattendedbyoverseatourists.However，someofthetravelagenciesfailedtoprovideEnglishintroductionst

3、otouristattractions，sotheywereunsuccessfulinattractingtheoverseacustomers.TheauthorassumesthattomakeacontrastiveanalysisofthestructuresofEnglishandChineseintroductionstotouristattractionsbasedonthetheoryofcohesionwouldhelppromotethedevelopmentoftourismindustryinChina.　　2.Theor

4、eticinformationofcohesion　　Cohesionreferstothegrammaticalandlexicalrelationshipsamongdifferentelementsofatext.Accordingto5Halliday（1976），cohesionisdefinedasthesetofpossibilitiesthatexistinthelanguageformakingtexthangtogether.Themainpatternsofcohesionareasfollows.　　Reference　　R

5、eferencesignifiesawordorphrasethatreferstoanotherwordorphraseusedearlierinatext，orlaterinthetext，orinwhichthetextoccursfortheitemwhichisbeingreferredto.　　Conjunction　　Conjunctionreferstowordssuchas‘and’，‘but’，‘however’，‘finally’thatjoinphrases，clauses，orsectionsofatextinwaysth

6、atexpresstheirlogical-semanticrelationship.　　SubstitutionandEllipsis　　Substitutionandellipsisareusedwhen“aspeakerorwriterwantstoavoidtherepetitionofalexicalitemandisabletodrawononeofthegrammaticalresourcesofthelanguagetoreplacetheitem”.（McCarthy，2002）.　　LexicalCohesion　　Lexica

7、lcohesionmeansthecohesiveeffectachievedbytheselectionofvocabulary.Itreferstorelationshipsamonglexicalitemsinatextandinparticularamongcontextwords.　　3.DifferentuseofcohesivedevicesinChineseandEnglishIntroductionstotouristattractions5　　Theauthorchosefourexamplesatrandom（twoinChi

8、neseandtwoinEnglish）toanalyzetheircohesivedevices，withanaimto