A Pragmatic Analysis of Cohesive Devices in The Old Man and the Sea

Cohesion is essential to the analysis and understanding of the discourse and is a significant device to help to realize the succinctness, coherence and the value of the language in the text. Cohesive devices are sorted into two types by Halliday and Hasan: lexical cohesion(repetition, synonymy and collocation) and grammatical cohesion(reference, ellipsis, substitution and conjunction). The present thesis intends to render insight into the internal structure of Hemingway's world-famous novel The Old Man and the Sea from a discourse-stylistic perspective by analyzing both the grammatical and lexical cohesive devices employed in it. Additionally, the thesis will consider the relationship between the employment of cohesive devices in Hemingway's classic profound language techniques and his gist of heroism that encompasses a trinity of roles ——Saint, Hero and Father.     

A Study of Cohesive Devices in English IM

The main purpose of the present research is to reveal features of the use of cohesive devices in English IM(Instant Message).In order to be accurate and explicit,Oxford WordSmith Tools(Version 4.0) is applied to investigate the frequency of each type of cohesive devices used by online-communicators.Cohesion in English IM is characterized by a number of distinguishing features:1) this genre of discourse makes abundant use of cohesive ties such as personal reference,lexical reiteration and ellipsis;2) substitution and comparative reference are rarely applied;3) The variety of conjunctions used is limited,and the most frequently used conjunctions are and,so,but and or.In analyzing the cohesive effect of each cohesive device,it is held that in order to overcome the limitations of the messaging systems and to achieve smooth communication,participants mainly adopt explicit cohesive ties which could achieve stronger force of cohesion in IM communication.     

Recipes for Success in Inaugural Address Delivered by John F. Kennedy

The inaugural address delivered by John F. Kennedy, which gave deep impression to us, is regarded as one of the best inaugural addresses. The recipes for success in the inaugural address are mainly concerned with contrasts, bold imagery, parallelism and alliteration, audience analysis etc..     

On the Application of Grammatical Cohesion in News Discourse

A discourse is the combination of various sentences.These sentences are supposed to be not only cohesive in construction,but coherent in semantics.With the theory of cohesion this paper analyzes how they are applied in a news discourse in order to help readers and learners gain deeper understanding of a news discourse.     

试论英汉语篇翻译中的连贯问题(英文)

Coherence,as an important feature of text,is language-specific.Coherence and cohesion are indispensable and compatible.They are closely linked with each other.An important contribution to coherence comes from cohesion Similarities of various grammatical cohesive devices between English and Chinese make it possible to achieve cohesion and coherence in inter-lingual translation between the two languages.In this thesis,the author explored potential problems in English Chinese text translation and put forward possible solutions to them based on case studies of English Chinese translation.     

Reference in Translation——A Case Study of Translation of Kong Yiji

Reference is one of the cohesive devices of discourse,the comparison of which between English and Chinese will benefit translation practice,and a understanding of the differences in this aspect between the two languages is helpful in the reproduction of the original coherence of discourse.Based on the data of the Chinese novel "Kong yij" and its English translation,this paper will make a detailed analysis of the differences in reference and propose some translation strategies.     

An Analysis of Cohesive Devise in an English Text from the Perspective of Discourse Analysis

This paper analyzes the cohesion in the text"Three Days to See"from the perspective of discourse analysis.It is analyzed by cohesive devises put forward by Halliday,that is,reference,substitution and ellipsis,conjunction and lexical cohesion.It is found that all those devises have been used in the text,therefore making the text textual or"be a text".     

Application of Schema Theory within Discourse Analysis

Researches on discourse analysis have been broadly conducted from various perspectives in linguistics. Many of them focus on analyzing the discourse with respect to cohesion, coherence, and the co-operative principle. This paper, however, attempts at the discourse coherence and the understanding of conversational implicature through the application of schema theory in doing discourse analysis.     

On the Application of Theme-Rheme Theory in College English Writing

Writing is one of the four basic skills students are required to master in foreign language studies,and an important way of language output.However,the teaching of English writing in college is deficient.In the English writings of college students,the lack of structural cohesion and semantic coherence is common.The theme-rheme theory is about discourse cohesion.Proper use of themes and thematic progession patterns qualifies cohesion and clear thoughts of a discourse and the variety of sentence patterns.Therefore,the theme-rheme theory plays an important role in writing teaching.     

On the Cohesion of English Entertainment News Discourse

With the rapid development of entertainment news, entertainment news has gained more and more attention in recent years. While previous studies have been mainly conducted from the perspective of journalism, the present study focuses on the cohesion strategies of the selected news discourse from the linguistic point of view. Cohesion is an important linguistic concept proposed by Halliday. This paper will analyze the news discourse from China Daily quantitatively and qualitatively. It is found that in the entertainment news discourse grammatical cohesive devices are commonly used. The present study attempts to analyze the cohesive features of English entertainment news, so as to help readers improve the efficiency in English news reading.     

Study on Lexical Cohesionin English-Chinese and its Implications for Translation

Lexical cohesion is one of the major cohesive devices. Based on the the theoretical framework proposed by Halliday and Hasan(2001),This paper tentatively compares lexical cohesion in English and Chinese,analyzes the similarities and differences of cohesivedevicesinEnglishandChineseandshedsanewlightforlearnersuponChinese-EnglishandEnglish-Chinesetranslation.     

Study on Lexical Cohesion in English-Chinese and its Implications for Translation

Lexical cohesion is one of the major cohesive devices. Based on the the theoretical framework proposed by Halliday and Hasan (2001), This paper tentatively compares lexical cohesion in English and Chin...     

The Study of Coherence in a Speech by the ADM of Health Canada

A new leader in a department will face a lot of problems when reorganizing the department. After analyzing an informal speech made by the new leader, it is found that the speech is coherent and the coherence of this speech is achieved by using many cohesive devices and register. For the successful expression of his ideas, the new leader built a cooperative other than command-and-control relationship with his subordinates, which will make the great reorganization in the department successfully done.     

The Application of Cohesion in English Reading and Writing Instruction——Based on Diagnosis and Instruction Experiment

Based on Halliday and Hasan’s taxonomy of cohesive devices,the author investigates the deficiency of cohesive awareness of subjects through the analysis of questionnaires,interviews and problems existed in writing samples,and then the efficiency of applying cohesion theory to English teaching is examined through the data analysis of the results of the pre-test and post-test by SPSS Statistics 17.0.At last,the author draws the conclusion that applying cohesion theory to English teaching can,to a great extent,foster students’awareness of textual cohesion,develop their writing strategies,and improve their abilities of reading comprehension.     

On Translation Strategies from the Perspectives of Thematic Progression

Thematic structure is an important grammatical device to organize the text,which is also an important aspect of discourse analysis.And thematic progression plays an important role in the analysis of textual cohesion and organization.This paper mainly discusses the theory of thematic progression and its application to translation between English and Chinese.     

On Coherence and Cohesion in Discourse Analysis

’cohesion’is the way words formally hang together in sentences and the like, and"coherence"captures the content- based connections between the words that make them produce sense. In the discourse, while the local sequence of turns creates a certain amount of cohesion, it isn’t sufficient to guarantee coherence.     

Cohesion Theory and Its Implications for English Reading Teaching

Abstrct: According to College English Curriculum Requirements(2007), reading is the main training aim of our college English teaching. And for the college graduates, reading is the main way through which they obtain information needed in their specialty.Most often, students think their problem in reading is vocabulary, which is not necessarily true. Sometimes even the readers look up all the new words, it is still hard for them to understand the text exactly and thoroughly. Though vocabulary plays an important role in reading comprehension, it may not be the biggest hindrance on our way of correct comprehending. English reading teaching shouldn’t be confined to the teaching of vocabulary or sentences but should develop students’ ability to analyze text beyond sentence level. It’s impossible to cover all the aspects of discourse analysis in one article and since cohesion is important and basic knowledge of discourse analysis, we will concentrate on the cohesive functions of discourse in English reading in this article.     

Argumentation Analysis——A discourse Approach

Argumentation is a special kind of discourse.It had its own special type of structure、reasoning mode、cohesion and coherence、rhetorical devices.In this dissertation,the writer tries to discuss how to analyze an argumentation from a discoursal view.Also an example is given to support her idea.     

Reiteration and its Contribution to Coherence of English Text

Reiteration,as one form of lexical cohesion,plays an important role in constructing a unified coherent text.In this paper,the author,by case studies of different texts,made an analysis of different forms of reiteration,e.g.repetition of the same word,synonym,near-synonym,general word,hyponym and superordinate,and their functions in structuring a coherent English text.     

The Application of Textual Cohesion and Coherence to the Teaching of College English Intensive Reading

In the process of college English intensive reading teaching,the analysis of textual cohesion and coherence is of great significance in that it can help students better understand the structure and contents of the teaching materials,improve their ability in commanding and applying the language,thus improving the quality of college English teaching.This paper tries to analyze how to apply the theory of textual cohesion and coherence to the teaching of college English intensive reading.