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An Analysis of Cohesion in Chinese and Native American’s Argumentative Writing
Defining Key Terms
Cohesion and Coherence
Cohesion and coherence are important terms in the study of text analysis. Halliday and Hasanview the concept of cohesion as” a semantic one” (Cohesion4). They also define the term as “Relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text.”(Cohesion4) In their later book, Language, Context and Text, Halliday and Hasan define cohesion and coherence as “Every text is also a context for itself. A text is characterized by Coherence, An important contribution to coherence es from cohesion: the set of linguistic resources that every language has for linking one part of a text to another.”(48).
In a word, Coherence can be created by cohesion in the way of adding some implicit meaning. As for the definition of both terms, the author agrees with Halliday and Hasan’s point of view. And this paper employs Halliday’s approach in the analysis of cohesion
Data Collection and Analysis
Data collection
This paper is based on analysis of two argumentative writings. The topic of both essays is the debate of drinking age. The first argumentation chosen as data is a FLC freshman’s homework assignment in a key normal university from Zhejiang province. And the second essay in the data is written by John M. McCardell Jr. from N.. Although the two t