Discourse Cohesion From Chinese To English Timislcition The Repotr Of "My Heart Is A Lotus: Lady Lin Huiyin"

Tliis repoit is ba^ed dii tlie English trftiisbtioii of rrMy Heart Is A Lohis: Lady LinMtiyinft wiitten by Zhang Hougpiiig and aims to study tlie di^couinse coliegion wlieiiti cULslafiiig Chinese to English. The original text is a biography which cou,si^ts of a lot ofChinese dioit sentences, and the links between sentences and paragarphs are mostlyachieved by logical ineaiiiug, s&tke coliesive devices iii the oiigmai text tend to be covertwith less conjuuctive words compat ed with the Euglisli tex^. Halliday&Hasati finely putforward the "discoMi-se cohesion" in their cooperEihiig woirc nEuiied "Cohesion m English11iii1976. Discoiii^e cohesion in one of iiiipditfuit devices to coiistruct text so it is of greatiinpoifaiice to analyze and study discourse cohesion theoiy mid devices as well as helpingreaders understand the context better.The original text named "A/v Heart Is A Lotus: Lady Lm Httiymu deseives a typicalChinese text, in which the cohesive devices are featured with the Chinese cJiaracteiisties.Therefore，it b of siguificaiice to conipare the differences of discourse cohedon behveeiiChinese and English b加ed (mi the Cliiu￡s? Biid English versiou. hi Rddilion, llie ariilhoialso ifnds some differences iii Englisli and Chinese cohesive devices when doing theIraiLslatioii. Though there are some common features in trie classification between Englishsuid Cliiiiese uoliesivc devices, mostly iucliidiiig gi?扣liiiiatical and lexical cohesion, tlieieai’e some clilffcieuces iii tlieir UEage. Fuitheimores discom^e cohesion theory is ailimpaitaiit patr of linguistics add it is of great help to tnaislatioii process. As a result, thisrepotr aims to fintlier analyze and compare the similmities and differences betweenEnglish mid Chinese discourse cohesion based ou some case studies m traji slat ion, bopiiiglo eiiricfi and develop the current discoui^e study and fi aiisktioiii theoi’ys study.