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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; Schi