Abstract
Cohesion, as the primary means of reaching discourse coherence, is one of the most important aspects of textual linguistics. Both English and Chinese employ cohesive devices, but they belong to different language families and the ways of their thought are different from each other, so there exists much dissimilarity between Chinese cohesion and English cohesion. A contrastive study on the cohesion in Chinese and English is of much significance for the research of the contrastive linguistics. This thesis mainly explores and studies the differences of Chinese discourse cohesion and English discourse cohesion. It is hoped that a better understanding can be obtained through this study.
Highlights
Nowadays,cross-culture communications are playing a more and more important role in today’s world
As the primary means of reaching discourse coherence, is one of the most important aspects of textual linguistics. Both English and Chinese employ cohesive devices, but they belong to different language families and the ways of their thought are different from each other, so there exists much dissimilarity between Chinese cohesion and English cohesion
English’s hypotactic prominence makes great differences Chinese cohesions, which means in English the grammatical meanings and logical relationships in the discourse are expressed by the employment of many language forms, such as conjunctions and connectives
Summary
Nowadays,cross-culture communications are playing a more and more important role in today’s world. Hu (1995), as one of the most famous linguists in China, developed his new theory of cohesion in Discourse Cohesion and Coherence. As one of the most important aspects in discourse, has been studied by many linguists. Both of them have laid the importance of cohesion in the study of discourse. On the base of these researchers’ studies, this thesis is trying to make a contrastive study of the different characteristics of cohesion in Chinese and English
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