摘要:衔接和连贯是语篇构成中不可切分的整体,二者互相补充。运用功能语法理论的语篇分析方法详,试图揭示海明威的.短篇小说《雨中的猫》的语篇衔接和连贯。
关键词:衔接;连贯;系统功能
中图分类号:I3/7文献标志码:A文章编号:1673-291X(2010)19-0220-02
1. Concepts
Coherence and cohesion is a pair of indispensable concepts. According to Thompson (1996/2000: 147), cohesion is the language mechanism used by speakers to express the coherence of experiential meaning and interpersonal meaning in a discourse Cohesion is realized by reference, ellipsis, and replacement etc. Coherence depends not only on the form of language but the context of culture, cognitive model, and context of situation so and so forth. Coherence is the feature of semantic facet characterized as the connectivity and consistency from the whole discourse in semantics.
2. An analysis on the discourse Cat in the Rain
2.1 rence is the most important means to express semantic relationships. According to Halliday and Hasan (1976), it can be divided as personal reference, demonstrative reference and comparative reference. In the novel, the wife is given a couple of
