Cohesive devices in students’business English writing are regarded as the object of the research.Based on Haliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory,this paper introduces commonly-used cohesive devices in English writing.W...Cohesive devices in students’business English writing are regarded as the object of the research.Based on Haliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory,this paper introduces commonly-used cohesive devices in English writing.With the method of quantitative data,use and misuse frequency of cohesive devices in students’writings can be known.The paper will also analyze why misuses happen through qualitative data analysis and explore right ways of using cohesive devices.展开更多
It is known that writing is one of the main basic language skills and is very important for the ESL learners.However,writing skill is normally the more complex and challenging one,especially for Chinese ESL learners.A...It is known that writing is one of the main basic language skills and is very important for the ESL learners.However,writing skill is normally the more complex and challenging one,especially for Chinese ESL learners.A successful written discourse is influenced by a variety of elements and the good use of cohesive device is one of them.In this paper,by using the Halliday&Hasan’s taxonomy of cohesive devices as the framework,the features of cohesive devices which Chinese ESL learners have adopted in their argumentative writings will be analyzed and identified.展开更多
As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to de...As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to detect whether the story is both cohesive and co-herent and as the same time functions of these devices are explored. Firstly, five types of cohesive devices including reference, substitu-tion, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical ties are exploited to analyze the text. Then the coherence of the story is also analyzed. Furthermore,suggestions for writers of children's story are given according to the research of this paper.展开更多
文摘Cohesive devices in students’business English writing are regarded as the object of the research.Based on Haliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory,this paper introduces commonly-used cohesive devices in English writing.With the method of quantitative data,use and misuse frequency of cohesive devices in students’writings can be known.The paper will also analyze why misuses happen through qualitative data analysis and explore right ways of using cohesive devices.
文摘It is known that writing is one of the main basic language skills and is very important for the ESL learners.However,writing skill is normally the more complex and challenging one,especially for Chinese ESL learners.A successful written discourse is influenced by a variety of elements and the good use of cohesive device is one of them.In this paper,by using the Halliday&Hasan’s taxonomy of cohesive devices as the framework,the features of cohesive devices which Chinese ESL learners have adopted in their argumentative writings will be analyzed and identified.
文摘As a beloved children's story, Hailstone Bugs written by Paul Jennings is worthy of being analyzed with the methods of dis-course analysis. In this paper cohesive devices and coherent signals are made use of to detect whether the story is both cohesive and co-herent and as the same time functions of these devices are explored. Firstly, five types of cohesive devices including reference, substitu-tion, ellipsis, conjunction and lexical ties are exploited to analyze the text. Then the coherence of the story is also analyzed. Furthermore,suggestions for writers of children's story are given according to the research of this paper.
