Cohesion And Coherence In Moment In Peking And Its Chinese Version

Moment in Peking is one of Lin Yutang's English masterpieces. His exquisite and fluent language is admired by a great number of readers. Thus the present thesis selects Lin's Moment in Peking as the sample to be analysed.Some linguists, including functional and cognitive, shift their focus from the level of words and sentences to discourse analysis gradually in recent years. And cohesion and coherence theory is one of the essential components in discourse analysis. This thesis analyses the cohesion and coherence in Lin Yutang's Moment in Peking and its Chinese version on the basis of Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar, especially the concept of cohesion and coherence. In Cohesion in English, Halliday and Hasan provide detailed analysis and explanation on the concept of"cohesion". According to Halliday and Hasan, cohesive devices can be divided into grammatical and lexical. And grammatical devices can be further divided into four parts: reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction. At the same time, the author analyses the textual coherence from the cognitive linguistics as well. Generally speaking, cohesion and coherence are not isolated, and they are dependent on each other.Through the research methods of quantitative analysis and corpus analysis, it is found in the research that the expression of cohesion and coherence in English is different from the one in Chinese. In the comparative analysis between the English and Chinese version, English tends to make use of"reference"and"conjunction", while in Chinese, it is found that people use the way of"ellipsis"which is one of the cohesive devices more frequently than English. In addition, on the basis of the analysis, the author believes that the research of cohesion and coherence promotes people's daily communication, writing, translation, and Chinese and English teaching.