Ⅰ. COHESION AND ITS FUNCTION This essay attempts to compare some of the cohesive devices in English and Chinese. By ’cohesive devices’ Ⅰmean the linguistic resources which help establish ’cohesion’, i.e. relatio...Ⅰ. COHESION AND ITS FUNCTION This essay attempts to compare some of the cohesive devices in English and Chinese. By ’cohesive devices’ Ⅰmean the linguistic resources which help establish ’cohesion’, i.e. relations of meaning between sentences in a ’text’. The concept of cohesion has been fully formulated by M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hasan in their Cohesion in English. It is based on Halliday’s theory of language functions. A thumbnail sketch of this theory may not be out of place.展开更多
文摘Ⅰ. COHESION AND ITS FUNCTION This essay attempts to compare some of the cohesive devices in English and Chinese. By ’cohesive devices’ Ⅰmean the linguistic resources which help establish ’cohesion’, i.e. relations of meaning between sentences in a ’text’. The concept of cohesion has been fully formulated by M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hasan in their Cohesion in English. It is based on Halliday’s theory of language functions. A thumbnail sketch of this theory may not be out of place.