讲解：衔接与连贯.doc

Cohesion and Coherence衔接与连贯 Some examples: Eg. (1)A: How old is your son? B: He is seven. (2) A: How old is your son? B: She is playing in the garden. Explanation: (2) is semantically incoherent, she has no referent. Eg. a. Claire and Kent climbed Mt. McKinley last summer. She photographed the peak, and he surveyed it. Eg. My father once bought a Lincoln convertible. He did it by saving every penny he could. That car would be-worth a fortune nowadays. However, he sold it to help pay for my college education. Sometimes I think Id rather have the convertible 1 Introduction to Cohesion and Coherence Cohesion and coherence are terms used in discourse analysis and text linguistics to describe the properties of written texts. 1.1 Cohesion Cohesion means the use of explicit linguistic devices to signal relations between sentences and parts of texts. These cohesive devices are phases or words that help the reader associate previous statements with subsequent ones. You might think of cohesion as a means of establishing connections within a text at all sorts of different levels, e.g., section, paragraphs, sentences and even phrases. Cohesion can be thought of as all the grammatical and lexical links that link one part of a text to another. This includes use of synonyms, lexical sets, pronouns, verb tenses, time references, grammatical reference, etc. For example, it, neither and this all refer to an idea previously mentioned. First of all, then and after that help to sequence a text. However, in addition and for instance link ideas and arguments in a text. Cohesion is the glue that holds a piece of writing together. In other words, if a paper is cohesive, it sticks together from sentence to sentence and from paragraph to paragraph. Cohesive devices certainly include transitional words and phrases, such as therefore, furthermore, or for instance, that clarify for readers the relationships among ideas in a piece of writing. However, transitions arent enough to make wri