法律文本中的衔接手段-外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docx

Cohesion in Legal Texts A Master Thesis Submitted to Graduate School, Southwest University of Political Science and Law In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Forensic Translation and Practice in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics April 2008 Acknowledgement First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Xiong Demi, who kindly offered me relevant materials and whose innovative perspectives greatly assisted me in conceptualizing the present thesis, both for his intellectual guidance and for his warm and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. With patience and prudence, he labored through drafts of this thesis and pointed out defects in my theorizing. Therefore, I owe all the merits in this thesis, if any, to him, though I am fully aware that the thesis might still contain some mistakes, for which I bear the whole responsibility. My cordial and sincere thanks go to Professor Song Lei, whose interesting and informative lectures on legal language and abundance of researching resources and materials lead me into the complicated yet fascinating domain of academic research. The profit that I gained from his profound knowledge, remarkable expertise and intellectual ingenuity will be of everlasting significance to my future research. I am also very grateful to my classmate, Rong Yiyu, whose careful and microscopic scrutiny of the manuscript resulted in the elimination of many inconsistencies. I also appreciate the help and precious suggestions that my teacher Cao Zhijian gave me. Last but not the least, big thanks go to my family who have shared with me my worries, frustrations, and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually finishing this thesis. Abstract Since the 1950s, discourse analysis or text linguistics has become one of the independent subjects in the field of linguistics. As a newly emerging interdisciplinary branch of modern linguistics, it aims