A Functional Analysis on Japanese Referential Relationship
Zhang Xian-xin · 2006
The term textis used in linguistics to refer to a serial of passages or sentences which form a unified whole.A text is supposed to be cohesive,logical and coherent,no matter in what form it is constructed.Cohesion in a text can be realized through grammatical,lexical,and other measures, of which substitution is one of the important measures.Reference is one of the substitutions.In Japanese,references are widely used in the text,and their usage is quite complicate.This paper intends to study the functional relation of Japanese personal reference and demonstrative reference.