I Introduction 1
1.1 The concept of cohesion 1
1.1.1 Text 1
1.1.2 Texture 2
1.1.3 Ties 3
1.1.4 Cohesion 4
1.2 Cohesion and linguistic structure 6
1.2.1 Texture and structure 6
1.2.2 Cohesion within the sentence? 7
1.2.3 Cohesion and discourse structrue 10
1.2.4 Cohesion as a semantic relation 11
Preface by Halliday F 12
王宗炎序 F 13
1.3.1 The domain of cohesive relations 14
1.3 Cohesion and linguistic context 14
Preface by Chomsky F 16
1.3.2 Text and situation 19
1.3.3 Components of the context of situation,and register 21
沈家煊序 F 23
导读 F 26
1.3.4 The place of cohesion in the linguistic system 26
1.3.5 The meaning of cohesion 28
2 Reference 31
2.1 Endophoric and exophoric reference 31
Foreword F 36
2.2 Types of reference 37
Preface F 38
Acknowledgments F 40
2.3 Personal reference 43
2.3.1 Semantic distinctions in the personal system 45
2.3.2 Speech roles and other roles 48
2.3.3 Some special kinds of personal reference 52
2.3.3.1 Extended reference,and text reference 52
2.3.3.2 Generalized exophoric reference 53
2.3.4 Personal pronouns,possessive determiners and possessive pronouns 54
2.3.5 Cataphoric reference 56
2.4 Demonstrative reference 57
2.4.1 The selective nominal demonstratives:this,these,that,those 59
2.4.1.1 Near and not near:this/these versus that/those 60
2.4.1.2 Singular and plural:this/that versus these/those 62
2.4.1.3 Head and modifier:this,etc,as pronoun versus this,etc,plus following noun 62
2.4.1.4 Extended reference and reference to fact :this and that 66
2.4.1.5 Anaphoric and cataphoric demonstratives 68
2.4.2 The 70
2.4.3 Demonstrative adverbs 74
2.4.4 A final note on demonstratives 75
2.5 Comparative reference 76
2.5.1 General comparison 77
2.5.2 Particular comparison 80
2.5.3 A note on so,such and as 84
3 Substitution 88
3.1 Substitution and ellipsis 88
3.1.1 Substitute and reference 88
3.1.2 Types of substitution 90
3.2 Nominal substitution 91
3.2.1 The meaning of substitute one/ones 92
3.2.2 Conditions of use of the nominal substitute 95
3.2.3 The word one other than as substitute 98
3.2.3.1 Personal pronoun one 98
3.2.3.2 Cardinal numeral one 98
3.2.3.3 Indefinite article one 100
3.2.3.4 Pro-noun one 102
3.2.4 Summary of uses of one 104
3.2.5 Nominal substitute same 105
3.2.5.1 say the same 107
3.2.5.2 do the same 108
3.2.5.3 be the same 109
3.2.6 Difference between the same and one(s) as nominal substitutes 110
3.3 Verbal substitution 112
3.3.1 The meaning of the verbal substitute do 113
3.3.2 Conditions of use of the verbal substitute 117
3.3.3 The word do other than as substitute 123
3.3.3.1 Lexical verb do 124
3.3.3.2 General verb do 124
3.3.3.3 Pro-verb do 125
3.3.3.4 Verbal operator do 127
3.3.4 Summary of uses of do 128
3.4 Clausal substitution 130
3.4.1 Difference between clausal and other types of substitution 130
3.4.1.1 Substitution of reported clauses 131
3.4.1.2 Substitution of conditional clauses 134
3.4.1.3 Substitution of modalized clauses 134
3.4.2 Similarity among the types of clausal substitution 135
3.4.3 Some related patterns 137
3.4.3.1 Response forms 137
3.4.3.2 Other uses of so and not 138
3.4.4 Summary of uses of so 139
4.1 Ellipsis,substitution and reference 142
4 Ellipsis 142
4.2 Nominal ellipsis 147
4.2.1 Ellipsis within the nominal group 147
4.2.2 Presupposition of nominal elements 150
4.2.3 Types of nominal ellipsis 153
4.2.3.1 Specific deictics 155
4.3.2.2 Non-specific deictics 157
4.3.2.3 Post-deictics 159
4.3.2.4 Numeratives 161
4.2.3.5 Epithets 163
4.3.1 Ellipsis within the verbal group 167
4.3 Verbal ellipsis 167
4.3.2 Lexical ellipsis 170
4.3.3 Operator ellipsis 174
4.3.4 Presupposition of verbal group systems 176
4.3.4.1 Polarity 176
4.3.4.2 Finiteness and modality 180
4.3.4.3 Voice 182
4.3.4.4 Tense 186
4.3.5 Summary of verbal ellipsis 192
4.3.6 Verbal ellipsis and the clause 194
4.4.1 Modal and propositional 196
4.4 Clausal ellipsis 196
4.4.2 No ellipsis of single elements 202
4.4.3 Ellipsis in question-answer and other rejoinder sequences 206
4.4.3.1 Direct responses(1):yes/no questions 208
4.4.3.2 Direct responses(2):WH-questions 210
4.4.3.3 Indirect responses 212
4.4.3.4 A note on zeugma 214
4.4.3.5 Other rejoinders 214
4.4.4 Ellipsis in reporing-reported sequences 217
4.4.4.1 Indirect WH-questions 217
4.4.4.2 Indirect yes/no questions 218
4.4.4.3 Indirect statements 219
4.4.4.4 Ambiguity between indirect statements and indirect questions 220
4.4.4.5 Reports and facts in relation to clausal ellipsis 221
4.4.5 Clausal ellipsis and clause complexes 222
5 Conjunction 226
5.1 Conjunction and other cohesive relations 226
5.1.1 Structural equivalents of conjunctive relations 227
5.1.2 Types of conjunctive expression 230
5.2 Some common conjunctive elements 233
5.2.1 The and relation 233
5.2.2 Coordinate and and conjunctive and 235
5.2.3 Other conjunctive elements:but,yet,so,and then 237
5.3 Types of conjunction 238
5.4 Additive 244
5.5 Adversative 250
5.6 Causal 256
5.7 Temporal 261
5.8 Other conjunctive items(continuatives) 267
5.8.1 now 268
5.8.2 of course 269
5.8.3 well 269
5.8.6 after all 270
5.8.5 surely 270
5.8.4 anyway 270
5.9 The cohesive function of intonation 271
6 Lexical cohesion 274
6.1 The class of general nouns 274
6.2 Types of reiteration 277
6.3 Lexical relations as cohesive patterns 282
6.4 Collocation 284
6.5 The general concept of lexical cohesion 288
7 The meaning of cohesion 293
7.1 Text 293
7.1.2 Definitiveness of the concept of text 294
7.1.1 Length of text 294
7.1.3 Tight and loose texture 295
7.1.4 Imaginary texture 297
7.2 The general meaning of cohesion 298
7.3 The meaning of the different kinds of cohesion 303
7.3.1 General principles behind the different types 304
7.3.2 Reference 308
7.3.3 Substitution and ellipsis 314
7.3.4 Lexical cohesion:reiteration and collocation 318
7.3.5 Conjunction 320
7.3.6 Summary 322
7.4 Cohesion and the text 324
7.4.1 Texture within the sentence 325
7.4.2 The texture of discourse 326
7.4.3 The role of linguistic analysis 327
8 The analysis of cohesion 329
8.1 General principles 329
8.2 Summary of cohesion,and coding scheme 333
8.3 Sample texts 340
Biblio?aphy 357
Index 367
文库索引 375