Wang Anyi's Textual Cohesion Study Of Song Of Everlasting Sorrow

Cohesion is an important part of discourse analysis,and it is the basis of correct understanding of discourse.It is an important means to ensure the smoothness of discourse and the highlight of information.The study of cohesion in the past mainly focuses on the comparative study of English-Chinese cohesive devices and the research of cohesive devices used in English novels,and lacks the analysis of the cohesive devices used in Chinese novels.Based on the theory of two scholars of Halliday and Hu Zhuanglin,this paper analyzes the cohesive devices used in Wang An-yi's "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow",whose novel won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.Firstly,we quantitate the cohesion devices of this novel;secondly,based on the statistics,we came to conclusions;thirdly,we found that ellipsis and repetition are often used in novels,however,some of the cohesion devices are rarely used,such as,substitutional and comparative reference.This article is divided into three chapters,respectively,from the grammatical cohesion,lexical cohesion,logical cohesion,and some other cohesion devices used in Wang Anyi's " The Song of Everlasting Sorrow ".We check the cohesion devices which are commonly used in the convergence of quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis.The first chapter analyzes the grammatical cohesion in " The Song of Everlasting Sorrow " from the three aspects of reference,substitution,and ellipsis.We find that the person reference and ellipsis are widely used in Chinese novels.The second chapter analyzes the lexical cohesion in " The Song of Everlasting Sorrow " from the three aspects of reiteration,collocation,and the comprehensive of lexical cohesion.Reiteration can be divided into repetition,synonyms,and hyponymy.Collocationis composed of antonym and collocational meaning coherences.Through the analysis of the comprehensive application of lexical cohesion,we find that the repetition are the most frequently used.Repetition,synonyms and antonym are often used together in Chinese novels.In the third chapter,we analyze the logical cohesion from three aspects:elaboration,extension and enhancement.As is known to all that Chinese is paratactic language.Thus we had better think of the paratactic when we analyze the logical cohesion.