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PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT4 Research Proposal for A Comparative Analysis of Chinese-English Anaphora in A Dream of Red Mansions 《红楼梦》中汉英回指的对比分析开题报告 1. Introduction 1.1 Background Language is a kind of tool which is used for describing objects, interpreting matter, conveying emotion, exchanging information and maintaining interpersonal relationship. Meanwhile utterance and discourse always center on person, objects or events. Therefore, in an essay or a dialogue, what kind of language components should be used to indicate the same person, object or event when they have been mentioned several times? How we can make readers or listeners better understand our intention? The two questions are related to anaphora in linguistics. Anaphora is a useful grammatical cohesive device for textual coherence which appears in everyday life with high frequency. It is widely used because it is regarded as a useful way of avoiding redundancy of expression. Recent years many scholars have paid more attention on the comparative studies in Chinese and English, finding that anaphora plays a significant role in context cohesion and reference. At the same time, with the development of powerful computer and relevant statistic software, corpus linguistics has quickly flourished as a new linguistic subject. With the help of the corpus analysis, study of anaphora is pushed forward step by step. 1.2 Research Rationale and Objective Since the 1980s, an enormous amount of work on anaphora has blossomed in scope and depth from different perspectives, like the syntactic, pragmatic, functional and cognitive studies. As far as anaphora is concerned, we need to develop a pragmatic awareness of this kind of reference. Now this thesis tries to make a tentative study of Chinese-English anaphora from some examples in the masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansion. In this way can we enrich our mind and enhance our communicative abilities. Apart from that, we can deeply understand the quintessence of the culture of