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On Cohesion And Coherence In CET－6 Writing 期刊门户-中国期刊网2010-6-10来源:《学园》2010年第2期供稿文/李 芸 [导读]This paper presents some meditations about Cohesion and Coherence in CET-6 Writing 李 芸 昆明学院公共外语教学部 【Abstract】This paper presents some meditations about Cohesion and Coherence in CET-6 Writing. It aims at helping candidates to pass the CET-6 successfully and achieve good grades. 【Key words】cohesion? coherence? CET-6? essay writing? 【中图分类号】 G642 【文献标识码】 A【文章编号】 1674－4810（2010）02－0049－02???????? COHESION AND COHERENCE???????? No matter whether a text is presented through writing or expressed by speaking, both of them should be logical cohesion and semantic coherence and there is no exception in essay writing for CET-6. Cohesion and coherence are the metafunction of Halliday’s functional grammar, which are applicable and practicable.（Halliday, 2002）When we talk about the text cohesion, we cannot help thinking of coherence. Indeed, coherence and cohesion are two different concepts. Generally speaking, according to Thompson, cohesion refers to the linguistic devices by which the speaker and writer can signal the experiential and interpersonal coherence of the text, and thus a text phenomenon. On the other hand, coherence is in the mind of writer and reader: it is a mental phenomenon.（1996/2000: 7）. By my acknowledgement, I believe that cohesion is a network of a text which can be seen but coherence is an entire meaning of a text which cannot be seen. From this point, a text realizes its coherence through cohesive devices.???????? COHESION AND COHERENCE AND TEXT???????? ‘A text has texture and this is distinguishes it from something that is not a text.’（Brown Yule, 1984: 191）‘A texture is provided by the cohesive RELATION.’（Halliday Hasan, 1976: 2） ‘Cohesive relationships within a text are set up ‘where the INTERPRETATION of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another.’（Brown Yule, 1984: 191）In another words, the texture is primarily provided by cohesion,