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【标题】浅析奥巴马演讲中的语篇衔接 【作者】徐 丽 娜 【关键词】衔接理论；语法衔接；奥巴马演讲 【指导老师】杨 波 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionContext is a linguistic unit, which is a semantic one, sentence text is a semantic unit and the text has its own features. A group of sentences can be organized into a text by some rules, the rules are texture, the function of texture is to combine several sentences into a united text, and make it coherence. Cohesion worked as one of the textures that attributes to a coherence text. There are sentence units which are reasonable in grammar but separate in meaning, the cohesion methods link these units together both semantically and grammatically by cohesive ties. According to Halliday and Hasan, there are two board categories in cohesion：the first one is grammatical cohesions which including reference，substitution, ellipsis and conjunction, the other is lexical cohesions which including repetition, hyponymy, collocation; etc.Barack Hussein Obama, born on August 4, 1961, is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii; both of his parents are high educated. He lived in Indonesia for four years and then lived in Honolulu till he went to college. He continued his education and career in Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago years after.???? Obama was an Illinois Senate from1996 to 2004, and then the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned following his election to the presidency. Throughout the campaign, Obama emphasized the issues of rapidly ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care. Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night. The success overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.?‘Change has come’, he declared to a huge throng of cheering supporters. The extracts from Obama’s speech, ranged from election to inaugurate, can