Chapter Five　Textual Analysis

It is now commonly accepted among linguists that people comm unicating in language do not do so sim ply by means of individual words or sentences，but by means of texts.（Werlich 1976：13）This chapter is beyond words and sentences，therefore textual featureswill be presented from the perspective of context.(https://www.daowen.com)

Brown and Yule took textas“the verbal record of a communicative event”；Halliday defined text in a theoreticalway“a unit of language in use”（Halliday＆Hasan 1978）；Beaugrand and Dressler（1981：3）understood text as“a communicative occurrence which meets certain standards”.No matter which definition it is，the essential function of text is taken as a meaningful way to communicate with people.That is why validity and continuity ofmeaning em phasize great importance in the text organization.