“Series of Teaching Foreigners Chinese Grammar” is the achievement of “Research and Development of Grammar Syllabus for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Teaching Reference Grammar Series (Multi-volume)”, a major project of National Social Science Fund of China sponsored by Professor Qi Huyang, which has been selected as the “2022 Founding Project of National Publication Foundation”. As an important reference book for international Chinese language education, it aims to build and improve the “Grammar System of Chinese Teaching” for foreign students to meet the development needs of the new era. It mainly serves the first-line Chinese teachers, researchers, graduate students and undergraduates majoring in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. This series consists of 39 volumes, including 4 outline series, 26 book series, 8 summary series, and 1 collection of essays.

This book is a fascicule of the third edition in the series of 26 volumes.

Discourse is one of the important contents of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, which involves various aspects and has always been a difficult point in teaching. From the perspective of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this book discusses main contents related to the cohesion and coherence of discourse, including their relationship, structure and cohesion, referential and cohesion, cohesive words and cohesion, and the teaching of cohesion and coherence. Mainly starting from specific language forms and common problems in second language acquisition, this book examines the main ways to realize cohesion and to choose corresponding language forms to achieve cohesion in different types of discourse.

Hu Jianfeng has a PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics of Shanghai Normal University and is an associate professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, Shanghai Normal University. His research focuses on text linguistics and pragmatics. Pro. Hu has published more than 30 papers in professional journals such as Chinese Teaching in the World, Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies and Linguistic Sciences, presided over a number of national and provincial social science projects, and published two monographs.

1. Language teaching involves not only grammar and vocabulary, but also pragmatics and discourse. Focusing on the latter two prominent aspects in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this book deserves to be a new reference material for discourse teaching and research.

2. This book focuses on the analysis of discourse bias in interlanguage corpora, which is of practical value to teaching.

3. This book systematically investigates the specific factors affecting discourse cohesion and coherence, and compares the influence of some cohesion modes on the discourse connectives, which is of reference significance for discourse teaching and research.

This book can be used as a reference material for teachers to prepare and teach in discourse lesson.