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1、Coherence1.TheDefinitionofCoherenceInthepasttwodecades,foreignlanguageschoolshaveseenagreaterimportanceontextualcoherence.Althoughdifferentlinguistsbelievethatcoherenceistheessentialpropertyofatext，theyapproachtheconceptfromdifferentangles．ØVan．Dijkinterpretscoherencefromtheper

2、spectiveofsemantics．Hebelieves“coherenceisasemanticpropertyofdiscourse，basedontheinterpretationofeachindividualsentencerelativetotheinterpretationofothersentences”（1973：）．ØHalliday'sfullattentionisgiventothosecohesivedevicessuchasreference，substitution，ellipsis，conjunctionandle

3、xicalcohesion.ØWiddowson（1978）believescoherenceisapragmaticconcept．Coherenceistherelationshipbetweenillocutionaryacts．ØBeaugrande（1981），coherenceisdefinedastheprocedureswhichensureconceptualconnectivity，including（1）logicalrelations，（2）organizationofevents，objectsandsituations，（

4、3）continuityinhumanexperience．Itconcerns“thewayinwhichthecomponentsofthetextualworldwhichunderliethesurfacetextaremutuallyaccessibleandrelevant”（1981：4）ØInBrownandYule'sopinion（1983），coherenceistheresultoftheinteractionofthetextandthereceiver．Itisprovidedbyreaders'processingoft

5、hetext．Wecanseethattheyfocusondifferentaspectsofdiscoursalcoherence.Coherenceisamulti-levelnotion.(1)Atthesemanticlevel.Coherenceisestablishedthroughcohesivedevicesandpropositionaldevelopment(2)Atthepragmaticlevel.Coherenceisoftenachievedthroughtheillocutionsorimplicaturesofdis

6、courseinlinguisticcommunicationoncertainoccasions(3)Atthemutualmentalinteractivelevel.Coherenceisconsideredasaprocessofmentalinteractionbetweentheproducerandthereceiver.Itisabout4interlocutors’interaction.Tosumup,coherenceisthestudyoftheconnectednessinmulti-levelnotion,varyingf

7、romsemanticlevel,topragmaticlevelandtomentallevel.2.CoherenceinDiscourse2.1CoherenceandDiscourseCoherenceisakeyconceptofdiscourseanalysisandaresearchsubjectofgeneralinterestaswell.Sofar,therehasbeennosystematicandgenerallyacceptedcriterionbywhichdiscoursalcoherenceisexplaineddu

8、etothecomplexityoftheconceptitself.2.2CohesionandCoher