Since its first publication in 1976,Cohesion in English hasestablished itself as a standard textbook.It is concerned with arelatively neglected part of the linguistic system:its resourcesfor text comstruction,the range of meanings that are specificallyassociated with relating what is being said or written to itssemantic environment,A principal component of these resourcesis'cohesion. This book studies the cohesion that arises from semantic relationsbetween sentences.Reference from one to the other,repetition ofword meanings,the conjunctive force of but,so,then and the like areconsidered.Further,it describes a method for analysing and codingsentences,which is applied to specimen texts.
【作者简介】
M.A.K.Halliday is Professor of Linguistics at the University ofSydney. Ruqaiya Hasan is Associate Professor ofLinguistics,Macquarie University,Sydney.
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