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《 A Days Wait 》— Cohesion 　　作者简介：马春亚，贵州师范大学外语学院2010级英语语言文学专业研究生。 　　摘 要：韩礼德建构的系统功能语法为语篇分析提供了新的理论框架，而作为系统功能语之一的语篇功能主要通过主位结构和衔接手段等方面体现。本文拟从语篇功能的角度入手，从衔接出发，以海明威的《一天的等待》为例，揭示语篇际功在小说语篇分析和小说人物性格特征及情节分析中的作用。 　　关键词：语篇功能；衔接；连贯；《一天的等待》 　　1.Introduction 　　Micheal Alexander Kirkwood Halliday developed his systemic grammar from the 1950s to 1960s and he worked on the functional aspect of grammar.Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar is a sociologically oriented functional linguistic theory in the 20th century，exerting a strong impact on various discipline related to language. 　　Functional grammar plays a critical role in Systematic Functional Grammar.It can be used in textual analysis and provides efficiently help for teaching and learning of literature works.Since 1960s，many researchers of applied linguistics have begun doing researches into discourse coherence and coherence has become an important concept in discourse analysis.Halliday and Hasan（1985）discusses coherence in terms of the relationship between text and its context of situation.In this thesis，the author will take a text-based approach to coherence based on Halliday’s functional grammar.The reason is that discourse coherence，as an important study of field of discourse analysis，focuses on how discourse constructs meaning and fulfills its communication.In this thesis，the author tends to let the readers appropriately take in the writer’s opinions and understand the special settings of the discourse based on A Day’s Wait. 　　2.Concepts 　　The textual function refers to the fact that language has mechanisms to make any stretch of spoken and written discourse into a coherent and unified text and make a living message different from a random list of sentences.Although two sentences may have exactly the same ideational and interpersonal functions，they may be different in terms of textual coherence.Coherence and cohesion is a pair of indispensable concepts.According to Thompson（1996/2000：147），cohesion is the langu