衔接手段 Cohesion.ppt

衔接手段 Cohesion.ppt衔接手段分析 Cohesion
The Study of Texture
Halliday’s Theory
Halliday (1976:2) said: “A text has texture(语篇特征) and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text…The texture is provided by the cohesive relation.”
. Wash and core six cooking apples. Put them into a fireproof dish.
According to Halliday, the cohesive relations include: reference, substitution, ellipsis and lexical relationship.
The concept of text
The word text is used in linguistics to refer to
any passage, spoken or written,
of whatever length, that does form a unified whole.
A text may be spoken or written, prose or verse, dialogue or monologue.
It may be anything from a single proverb to a whole play, from a momentary cry for help to all-day discussion on mittee.
The property of being a text
If a speaker of English hears or reads a passage of the language which is more than one sentence in length, he can normally decide without difficulty whether it forms a unified whole or is just a collection of unrelated sentences.
Take the following two passages for example.
A.
Throughout the long history of mathematics, men have always wished that they could calculate quickly. As each mathematical discovery was made and knowledge advanced a little the calculations facing mathematicians became more and plicated and demanded an even greater time. There are some people who like doing long and difficult arithmetic, but most of us do not and are eager to finish our sums in the shortest and easiest way.
B.
Every morning Tom’s mother got up early to prepare breakfast. But Tom preferred music to math at school. Last week there was a traffic jam due to a car accident, which was caused by the carelessness of the driver. However, the schoolmaster decided to keep the secret for Tom. Although he was not too rich, Tom’s father managed to buy a beautiful dress for his wife as a Christmas gift.
Although the distinction seems to be made in an intuitive way, actually there does exist some