The functions of discourse connectives in the generation and interpretation of texts consist in two aspects: textual organization and cognitive guiding.

The Impact of Differences in Thinking Mode between English and Chinese on the Discourse Organization of English Writing:An Analytical Case Study Based on College English Writing;

Based on the discrepancies between English and Chinese modes of thinking which are supposed to be the core reasons for the problems existing in college students English writings,this paper analyzes the effects from three aspects where the discrepancies are produced on the discourse organization of writings.

To investigate the discrepancies between the oriental and occidental modes of thinking, the author of this paper reports a study on 150 English argumentative compositions by non-English majors in an attempt to probe the effects of L1 thinking mode on L2 discourse organization.

There are two major features of an abstract: its discourse structure and the language used for condensing the information,which will help one to write a good abstract.

Taking the concept of "register" as the starting point,this paper elaborates the characteristics of lonely heart advertisement under its own register,mainly in its discourse structure and linguistic characteristics.

This paper tries to give a brief description of John Sinclair s concept of discourse structure.

On the basis of Halliday’s grammatical metaphor theory,the authors hypothesize that there is a positive correlation between the frequency of using grammatical metaphor and students’ levels of text construction.

Rheme, as one of the functional parts of thematic structure realizing both ideational and interpersonal meanings, plays a significant role in text construction.