文档介绍：Chapter 14
逻辑连贯
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Coherence:
On the basis of a monly known to both the addressor and the addressee, logical reasoning is used to reach semantic coherence.
It is the work that weaves the text as a logical whole.
It is an important feature of discourse.
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Cohesion vs. Coherence
Cohesion refers to the linguistic devices by which the speaker can signal the experiential and interpersonal coherence of the text, and is thus a textual phenomenon.
Coherence, on the other hand, is in the mind of writer and reader: it is a mental phenomenon and cannot be identified and qualified in the same way as cohesion.
(Thompson, 1996:7, Introducing Functional Grammar )
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Coherence – 3 Types
1) Morphemic Coherence (词素连贯)
词素连贯不仅要求词素与词素之间能构成有效的形式和语义连贯, 而且还要求这一语义连贯能同原文概念所指的实物、行为或特征之间构成有效的语义关联。
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Coherence – 3 Types
2) Inter-words Coherence (词际连贯)
词际连贯, 即小句之内词与词之间的搭配, 不仅要求它们之间能构成有效的形式连贯, 而且要求这一连贯能同原文概念所指的实物、行为或特征之间构成有效的语义关联。
词际连贯受制于语法规则语义规则和语义规则。
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Coherence – 3 Types
3) Inter-sentences Coherence (句际连贯)
句际连贯指(小) 句与(小) 句之间的连贯,要求它们之间不仅要有结构上的连接, 而且还要有深层的语义和语用关联, 也就是说要文通理顺。句际连贯的范围可以是邻近句之间的近距连贯, 也可以是非邻近句的远距连贯,乃至跨章跨节的超远距连贯。
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Exercise
Work in groups and study some paragraphs taken from an essay. Can you arrange the paragraphs back into plete essay?
Tourism – problems and solutions
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Coherence – A Major Problem
This relates to:
Subjectivity vs. Objectivity
Man vs. Nature
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Another Point: Repetition
Chinese: curved way of thinking
round-about
repetitive
English: linear way of thinking
straightforward
non-repetitive
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Example Analysis
Mayor Zhang Guangning’s speech at the Joint Press Conference of the OCA and Guangzhou Asian Games mittee
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