Ontological Speculation Of Cohesion

In the philosophical field, when the exploration of ontology gets involved in the statement of human thought and the reflection of consciousness, language/symbol becomes the target of ontological study, as well as the empirical proof of the ontological nature of thought, theory and knowledge. This paper starts with the basic characteristic of discourse—cohesion, takes examples from daily conversations and literary works, and classifies cohesion into explicit cohesion and implicit cohesion to explore the ontological nature of cohesion in discourse. According to our study, in explicit cohesion, the existence and comprehension of cohesive words is necessarily dependent on the relative antecedent sentence components, and this dependence relationship is the ontological nature of explicit cohesion; in implicit cohesion, the ontological nature of cohesion lies in human beings’ direct or indirect experience and thought, by which human beings organize and comprehend discourse in a cohesive way. Cohesion is a typical area where ontology conducts its philosophical research on language. Modern classroom teaching adopts the multimodal method in most cases, in which various modalities complement each other, forming a unified and complete integrity. The order of the contents of classroom teaching, as well as the cohesive relation between various modalities, plays an important role in the effect of classroom teaching. A cohesive multimodal class can help students grasp the knowledge in a systematic way, and master the information in the class logically. As the ontology of explicit and implicit cohesion has been proved and testified, the result can be used as a basis to reasonably combine multimodal classroom teaching and cohesion. That is of great significance both for improving the teaching quality and consummating the classroom teaching system.