cohesion in english 英语专业论文

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1、11CohesioninEnglishThevariouskindsofcohesionhadbeenoutlinedbyMAKHallidayinhiswritingsonstylisticsandtheconceptwasdevelopedbyRuqayiaHasaninherUniversityofEdinburghdoctoralthesis.Cohesiverelationsarerelationsbetweentwoormoreelementsinatextthatareindependentofth

2、estructure:forexamplebetweenapersonalpronounandanantecedentpropername,suchasJohn….he.Asemanticrelationofthiskindmaybesetupeitherwithinasentencewiththeconsequencethatwhenitcrossesasentenceboundaryithastheeffectofmakingthetwosentencescoherewithoneanother.Themaj

3、orfunctionofcohesionistextformation.Asdefined:textisaunifiedwholeoflinguisticitems,thisunityoftextasasemanticwholeissourcefortheconceptofcohesion.Sofirstwewillexploretheconceptoftext.TextTextinlinguisticsreferstoanypassagespokenwrittenofwhateverlengththatform

4、saunifiedwhole.Areadercaneasilyidentifywhetherthepassageheisreadingisatextorotherwiseacollectionofunrelatedsentences.Atextmaybe:spoken,written,prose,verse,dialogue,monologue,singleproverb,asinglecryforhelporalldaydiscussiononacommittee.Atextisaunitoflanguagei

5、nuse.Agrammaticalunitthatislargerthanasentence.Atextisnotsomethingthatislikeasentenceonlybiggerorlarger.Itismisleading.Rathertextcanbebestdefinedasasemanticunit;aunitnotofformbutofmeaning.Ifitissemanticunit,wewillnotexpecttofinditinstructureofasentenceasagram

6、maticalunitasphrase,clauseetc.Sotextisnotconsistofsentencebutitisrealizedbysentenceorencodedinsentences.Therearecertainobjectivefactorsinvolvedthatconstituteatext.ConstituentsofText1.Texture:2.Ties:3.Cohesion1.Texture:Textureisthatfeatureoftextwhichmadeitauni

7、fiedwhole.Accordingto‘TheConciseOxfordDictionaryofLinguisticsbyP.H.Mathews’cohesionandcoherencearesourceswhichcreatetexture.Crystaladds‘informativeness’tocohesionandcoherence.Example:Washandcoresixcookingapples.Putthemintoafireproofdish.Herethemreferencebackt

8、osixcookingapplestocreatecohesionbetweenthetwosentences.Herewemakeapresuppositionabouttherelationshipbetweenthemandsixcookingapplesbutitisnotenoughonlytomakeapresuppositionratherthatpresu