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1 Cohesion, Coherence munication 安徽大学大学英语教学部胡学文 2 Acknowledgement For the three years of my further study in The School of Foreign Studies, I would like to express my appreciative thanks to Professor Hua Quanqun, Professor Hong Zengliu, Professor Zhou Fangzhu, Professor Zhang Zuwu, Professor Li Yongfang, Professor Hambeck and many others for their unfailing encouragement and delicate instructions. In particular, I am indebted to Professor Zhu Yue whose critical understanding and wise guidance in this paper has been invaluable and much appreciated. Finally, I would like to acknowledge that this paper would not have been possible without the help of my directors and many of my colleagues. 3 Contents 1. Introduction ………………………………………………….1 Discourse Cohesion and coherence 2 52. Cohesion ……………………………………………………… 6 Reference Substitution Ellipsis 11 Conjunction 12 Lexical cohesion 15 Sub-conclusion 17 3. Coherence ……………………………….…………………..18 Context 18 anization and known-new information 23 Speech acts 27 Conversational implicature and Cooperative Principles 32 Sub-Conclusion 36 4. Communication …………………….……………………...37 Sentence, proposition and illocutionary act 37 Cohesion and propositional development 40 Coherence and illocutionary development 43 5. Summary and Conclusion …………………………….….46 Reference 49 4 Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between cohesion, coherence munication. Cohesion isa semantic category. It refers to the explicit relationship between linguistic items which is realized by cohesive devices or cohesive ties. Coherence isa pragmatic category. It refers to the implicit relationship between linguistic elements which is realized by pragmatic connections, such as context, conversational implicature, illocutionary force. Communication involves the interpretation of both the surface or sentential meaning and the implicature and intention ofa discourse. In the munication, cohe