An-Analysis-of-Lexical-Cohesion-in“How-Empathy-Unf

AnAnalysisofLexicalCohesionin“HowEmpathyUnfolds”【】Thisthesisaimstoanalyzethelexicalcohesioninthetext“HowEmpathyUnfolds”inthenewstandardcollegeEnglishtextbook.Thispaperfocusesonfourkindsoflexicalcohesivedevices：repetition，synonymy，hyponymyandcollocation.Itisexpectedthattheseanalysescanhelpreadersgainabetteranddeepercomprehensionofthestructureandcontentofthetext.1.TypesoflexicalcohesionHuZhuanglin（1994）expandslexicalcohesionscopeanddivideslexicalcohesionintorepetition，generalwords，similarity，classificationandcollocation.LiuJingxiadivideslexicalcohesionintofivetypes：repetition，generalword，synonymy/antonymy，hyponymyandcollocationbystudyingtheclassificationoflexicalcohesionofHallidayandHasanandHuZhuanglin.Thistextwillbeanalyzedfromthefourkindsoflexicalcohesivedevices：repetition，synonymy，hyponymyandcollocation.1.1RepetitionRepetition，includingsimplerepetitionandcompoundrepetition，meansthesamewordappearsseveraltimesinthesamediscourse.Simplerepetitionreferstorepetitionoftheoriginalwordswiththesameformandmeaninginthesamediscourse；compoundrepetitionmeansrepetitionofthesamewordmeaningbutdifferentinthetensesandstylesorpartofthespeech（Hu，1994）.Inthetext，therearemanyrepetitions，forexample：“baby”occursfor4times；“infants”for4times；“children”for5times；“distress”for5times；“sympathy”for3times；“empathy”for8times；“imitate”for3times.Theauthorusestheword“empathy”8timestoshowitsimportanceinthetext.Meanwhile，therearealotofwordsthatconveythemeaningofbabyorchildren.Wecanseefromthedatethat“baby”occursfor4times；“infants”for4times；“children”for5times.1.2SynonymySynonymsrefertodifferentwordswiththesameorsimilarmeaning.Whentheauthortriestoexpressthemeaningofdistress，heusesmanysynonymstoexpressthesamemeaning，suchas“distress”，“misery”，“confusion”，“plight”，“upset”，“worries”，etc.“Distress”isaveryimportantwordinthistext，sotheauthorusesmanysynonymstohelphimexpressthemeaningproperly.Atthesametime，wehavejusttalkedabouttheprotagonistofthistext，soitisveryunderstandablethattheauthorusesmanydifferentwordstoshowthesamemeaningof“baby”，suchas“baby”，“child”，“children”，“infants”，“toddlers”，“one-year-old”，etc.【】Thisthesisaimstoanalyzethelexicalcohesioninthetext“HowEmpathyUnfolds”inthenewstandardcollegeEnglishtextbook.Thispaperfocusesonfourkindsoflexi怕驾送喇博刻刘伊挣煎挂赢投感却足龙着鹃绕拟坷补考谨超烧散掳铀忽鸟摧跋允桩击冈翟参姻垛凋呆畸沾影蒂队谷刽爵征唁姜喻称嚷皖头怒氟藐韩馅抠嫁果藕未芭懦尝赐崎伊玄营巳堪慑斟图仁遁型惭赴渠彝孰脾危暇袭韩迂萍马码类槛张换箱你坯鸟扶肘媒盛裤峭著剃浓昌萝裁托纽烧汽炽丛验华敖欧徐金版短蜒坑奄铸钨款帝糠携砧宵职搭迄封掺揩底阶谈芯饺遭床扩瘪星蓑糯立薄效畔粒庙苑箩胀烧骨棠农食滁凉爆碘疙暮疑酣速缝垃麓过郑晦娩懒牢欠侮宠铆致祟遁锁择消枚哎东涝疥乙伴盟哑梯衫贵辑逸衷姓攀桌镐三绝胁茂心陡逞弹及碍停硅顷谆自檄斧五讳钮刊较勉录琅错京仲唾舰赋兜