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1. Introduction Over the last several decades, linguists have put a great emphasis on the research of text linguistics. The theory of cohesion, first proposed by Halliday and Hasan in Cohesion in English in 1976, accounts for the relationship between cohesion and coherence. Despite the fact that Halliday’s point of view has encountered much criticism from other linguists such as Van Dijk (1977), Widdowson (1978, 1979), Brown and Yule (1983). Denials on the issue, conversely, stimulate linguists to make greater efforts to improve it. Foreign researchers (Halliday and Hasan 1985a, 1985b; Schiffrin 1987; Hubbard 1989) and Chinese linguists (Hu Zhuanglin 1994; Zhang Delu, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003b; Zhang Delu and Liu Rushan 2003a; Zhu Yongsheng 1995, 1996a, 1996b, 1997; Zhu Yongsheng and Yan Shiqing 2001) are among those who contribute greatly in the field. …… Contrastive transition, under the heading of transition, has been set into the coherence-based theory framework by linguists (Halliday 1976, 1985a, 1985b; Mann and Thompson 1986; Schiffrin 1987; Fraser 1990). Contrastive transition refers to lexical items that signal contrastive coherence relation between adjacent text spans. Contrastive transition has been studied as functional words by grammarians, and viewed as cohesive device by systemic-functional linguists. Nevertheless, the functions of contrastive transition require further discussion. In this paper, they are explored in the light of Halliday’s theory of three metafunctions of language. Pragmatic and cognitive principles—Austin and Searl’s speech act theory, Sperber and Wilson’s theory of relevance—are applied to the issue as well, particularly to the interpersonal and textual functions. ……. 2. A survey of the study of contrastive transition Xxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx x