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A Study of French Chinese Cohesive Words Guided by Textual Function

Author(s)

Junlei Tian

Affiliation(s)

School of foreign Languages, China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, Hubei, China

Abstract

Cohesive words are important auxiliary means to enhance or achieve specific grammatical and semantic relationships, and their core meaning is the role of cohesion. The function of cohesion lies in "determining some logical relationships between language functional units". Words are the foundation of discourse, and discourse is the extension and enhancement of the intrinsic referential and cohesive functions of words. Clarifying the scope of conjunctions is beneficial for the hierarchical analysis of complex sentences, sentence groups, or discourse. The article conducts a comparative study of French and Chinese conjunctions based on the discourse function. On the basis of reviewing the research trends of conjunctions both domestically and internationally, this study aims to explore the application attributes of conjunctions, in order to help French major students master the "profound and vivid relationships" between various components such as intra sentence, inter paragraph, and cross sentence connections, and cultivate students' logical thinking in French expression and writing.

Keywords

Conjunctions; Function Words; Relevance; Discourse; functionalism

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