论《西雅图酋长给美国总统的一封信》中的衔接手段

Cohesion in "A letter of Chief Seattle to the US President"

衔接是语篇分析中的重要环节。语篇衔接理论自从韩礼德和哈桑于1976年首创以来,就受到国内外众多语言学家们的研究。本文旨在运用该衔接理论框架对美国关于自然与人演讲名篇《西雅图酋长致美国总统的一封信》进行分析,讨论其衔接手段的具体运用,从而证明其强大艺术魅力正是源自该语篇的特殊衔接方式。

As an important aspect of discourse analysis, cohesion has aroused interest of many text analysts both abroad and at home, especially since HaUiday and Hasan established the cohesive theories. With a view to explore the artistic and esthetic charm of A letter of Chief Seattle to the US President and to prove that it is a very practical and efficient approach for the coherence analysis of a text , the theoretical framework of cohesion will be applied to analyze the coherence of the classic speech.