2024届高考英语英汉翻译中的衔接与连贯问题研究课件

Cohesion & Coherence Today, we are going to talk about a pair of concepts: cohesion and coherence. As you can see, the two terms in text analysis look quite similar, so there must be correlation in between, but they of course represent different ideas. Due to time limit, our focus today is cohesion Cohesion Jakobson (1960) Halliday&Hassan(1976) Baker (1992) “The concept of cohesion is a semantic one; it refers to relations of meaning that exist within the text, and that define it as a text. ------ Cohesion in English Cohesion is the network of lexical, grammatical, and other relations which provide links between various parts of a text . Jakobson first talked about it in detail, but it is Halliday that introduced this concept as a linguistic term, and his book with Hassan drew the attention of the academics to cohesion. The initial definition is.... . It is semantic, not structural. But later scholars' interpretation might be a bit different. They think cohesion is reflected in linguistic devices, which is similar to nowadays' understanding (衔接手段） Coherence not defined in rhetorics comparison All part of a text are closely related to make it valid. 1. meaning VS structural properties 2. implicit VS explicit coherence compared with cohesion Correlation: cohesion =>coherence ? ! not necessary ! not sufficient ! helpful The king died. The queen died of grief. A: Can you go to Edinburgh tomorrow? B: B.E.A. pilots are on stike. “ lexical 1 Grammatical 2 reference A substitu- tion A ellipsis A conjuc- tion A reference definiton A participant or circumstantial element introduced at one place in the text can be taken as a reference point for something that follows. ---Halliday reference types ● personal reference ① personal pronoun ② possessive pronoun eg. He shrugged his shoulders, shock his head