A RE-ANALYSIS OF COHESION AND COHERENCE
Authors:
FANYU MAO
Abstract:
Language is a set of stratified semiotic systems in which a text lies on top of language structure. Although they are basic attributes of a text, presently, there is no definite theory concerning the relationship between cohesion and coherence. Based on the illustration of its development from scholars both home and abroad, the paper expounds that there is no obligatory connection between cohesion and coherence and reveals the fact that the generation mechanism for textual coherence is the metaphorical feature of language from systematic nature and structural mapping of metaphors.