Reference Contrast in Chinese and English Text 对比语言学论文.docVIP

Reference Contrast in Chinese and English Text Abstract: Reference is one of the most important grammatical devices for cohesion of text. It is a kind of semantic relationship, which indicates that certain items in text can be retrieved from elsewhere. Reference in both Chinese and English languages can be divided into personal reference, demonstrative reference and comparative reference. However, there are distinctive features in the manipulation of references in these two languages, i.e., more personal and demonstrative references are used in English while more zero-references and repetitio