The Cohesion In Chinese Translation Of Rome, Naples And Florence

Rome, Naples and Florence, written by an eminent French writer Stendhal who is a critical realist in19th century, describes the writer’s seeing and feeling in the formation of diary when he travels around Italy. At that time, the army leaded by Napoleon arrived at Milan, a place where had been governed by Austria for a long time. This book once had been seen as a book against religion, moral and Austria when Stendhal first arrived at Milan.Cohesion plays an indispensable role in forming discourse. It is two British linguisticians, Halliday and Hasan, that make a great contribution to cohesion theory in linguistics. They have long focused on the definition, the significance and the application filed of cohesion theory, as well as the role it plays in language system and discourse coherence. The book Cohesion in English that they have written in1976promotes the extensive application of cohesion theory. Halliday and Hasan make it categorized into5types:reference、substitution、 ellipsis、conjunction and lexical cohesion. The last type contains reiteration and collocation. Reiteration can be categorized into same item, synonym or near synonym, superordinate and "general" item.This report aims to give the introduction, analysis and summary by translating the English book Rome, Naples and Florence based on cohesion theory. It consists of four major parts, the task description, the translation procedure description, the case analysis and the translation practice summary. The summery and analysis of this report helps translators deepen their understandings of cohesion theory so that they can devote themselves to translation work better in the future.