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This title proposes a creative, concrete, and highly operational theoretical model that unites cohesion and coherence in Linguistics using authentic English or Chinese examples. The authors expand the scope of research by focusing on a variety of internal and external factors and apply it to a range of other disciplines.
List of contents
Part One: Theoretical Research.1. Text Coherence: Retrospect and Prospect. 2. Theoretical Research on the Concept of Coherence. Part Two: External Factors for Text Coherence. 3. Sociocultural Factors and Text Coherence. 4. Psycho-Cognitive Factors and Text Coherence. Part Three: Internal Conditions for Text Coherence: A Study of Cohesive Devices. 5. The Scope and Types of Text Cohesion. 6. Cohesive Relation and its Role in Text Coherence. 7. Cohesive Force and the Degree of Text Coherence. 8. Cohesive Principles and Language Communication. 9. The Macro Principles of Text Coherence. 10. Cohesion in Multimodal Text. Part Four: The Application of The Theory of Cohesion and Coherence. 11. The Theory of Text Coherence and Stylistics. 12. Text Coherence and Translation. 13. Textual Coherence and Foreign Language Teaching. 14. Application of the Theory of Cohesion and Coherence to Other Disciplines.
About the author
Zhang Delu is Professor of Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, China. His research areas include systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. He has authored and co-authored 25 books.
Liu Rushan is Professor of Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China. His research areas include sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and discourse analysis. He has published more than 30 papers in some key journals.
Summary
This title proposes a creative, concrete, and highly operational theoretical model that unites cohesion and coherence in Linguistics using authentic English or Chinese examples. The authors expand the scope of research by focusing on a variety of internal and external factors and apply it to a range of other disciplines.
