Cohesion Research Of The Reports On The Work Of The Goverment Nearly A Decade

Cohesion is an important part of text analysis. Taking the Report on the Work of the Government in the last decade (2000—2009) as language materials, this paper analyzes the phenomenon and features of cohesion in the Report on the Work of the Government on the following levels:the socio-semiotic level,the semantic level,the lexical level and the grammatical level. There are five parts in this thesis:In part one, the thesis briefly reviews the cohesion theory and gives an explanation to the language materials. In addition, an introduction of the significance and the method of this thesis will be given.On the socio-semiotic level, cultural context which mainly includes political system,the background and the patterns of thought has a great effect on the understanding of the Report on the Work of the Government.On semantic level, the use of the conjunction was highly concentrative and singleness. What's more, the transitivity has been mostly presented by the material process.On the lexical level, repetition,hyponymy and reference are important methods used in the lexical cohesion. Repetition is used frequently which can ensure the cohesion of the text. Moreover, reference makes the text simple and direct and most of the demonstrative references are composed by "zhe". Meantime, there are many zero-anaphoras in the Report on the Work of the Government.On the grammatical level, due to the seriousness, solemnity and requirement of the accuracy in the Report on the Work of the Government, substitution is seldom used. However, isomorphic structure is used very often which can not only enhance the language potential but also connect the text closely like a net.