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THE APPLICATION OF COHESION IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES By Li Mengli Under the Supervision of Associate Professor Jin Quanyuan Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts College of Foreign Languages Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics March, 2012 承诺书 本人郑重声明：所呈交的学位论文，是本人在导师指导下，独立进 行研究工作所取得的成果。尽我所知，除文中已经注明引用的内容外， 本学位论文的研究成果不包含任何他人享有著作权的内容。对本论文所 涉及的研究工作做出贡献的其他个人和集体，均已在文中以明确方式标 明。 本人授权南京航空航天大学可以有权保留送交论文的复印件，允许 论文被查阅和借阅,可以将学位论文的全部或部分内容编入有关数据库 进行检索，可以采用影印、缩印或其他复制手段保存论文。 (保密的学位论文在解密后适用本承诺书) 作者签名： 导师签名： 日 期： 南京航空航天大学硕士学位论文 南京航空航天大学硕士学位论文 The The Application of Cohesion in American Presidential Debates i i PAGE PAGE iv Acknowledgements During the period I was writing this thesis, I have fortunately received so much help from my teachers, friends, and also my family. I must express my innermost gratitude to them, without whom I would not finish my research. First and foremost, I want to sincerely thank my supervisor Professor Jin Quanyuan. He generously sacrifices his precious time to give me instructions on the thesis. His insightful thoughts and meticulous attitude and on the study deeply influence me all the time. I definitely own him the greatest gratitude. I would never accomplish my thesis without his considerate encouragement, intellectual guide and priceless suggestions. Secondly, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the professors and teachers who taught me during my post-graduate study in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. They are Professor Wu Dingmin, Professor He Jiangsheng, Professor Fan Xiangtao, Professor Xie Xiaoyuan, Professor Tang Chengxian, Professor Yuan Yining, Doctor Xu Yizhong, Doctor Wang Xiuwen, Professor Guo Chunjie, Professor Cai Zhongyuan, all of whom are so knowledgeable that their profound lectures are very vivid and easy to comprehend, and most importantly, have inspired me on various aspects about my paper writing. Thirdly, thanks to my r