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Chapter One   Introduction 

1.1 Background of the Study 
Arbitration award is the written version of arbitration court’s verdict on litigant’s arbitration requests, anti-requests, or previous related requests, based on the trial of the law  case  submitted  through  law  procedure(  Liu  Meiyan,  2007).  It  is  a  clear  written version  of  the  arbitration  process  which  can  help  readers  quickly  know  the  whole picture of the case. Arbitration award, as a special genre, is frequently resorted to solve commercial or civil disputes for its flexibility, economy and confidentiality. With the improvement of legal system, the writing of arbitration award has also been enhanced to a higher standard and more professional level. It has been greatly valued by numerous scholars both home and abroad.  Even  though  arbitration  award  has  attracted  much  attention,  research  about  the arbitration award is still insufficient so far at home and abroad. Most of the research concentrates  on  commercial  arbitration  or  the  legal  language  characteristics  of arbitration.  In  contrast,  there  has  been  few  research  on  arbitration  award  from  the perspective of linguistics. In the book Cohesion in English, Halliday & Hasan (1976) stressed  that  text  needed  to  be  coherent  in  two  ways:  Be  coherent  in  the  context  of situation to present the uniformity in the register. Be coherent in itself. Discourse didn’t skip from one topic to another disorderly, but stretched regularly and reasonably with the coherence of certain topics and the possibility of expanding topics. That was to say that the text was not coherent without various cohesive devices. As the crucial device of contributing  to  the  text  coherence,  cohesion  was  essential  to  the  logic  of  language. Therefore, this paper tries to analyze the reasoning process of the arbitration award from the perspective of discourse cohesion. What’s more, this paper chooses the reasoning achievement  as  the  research  object.  The  reasoning  process,  mainly  consisting  of Confirming  Facts  of  the  Case  and  Tribunal  Comments,  is  the  main  body  of  the arbitration award. The analysis of it can help us understand how the arbitration court interrogates  the  evidences  in  the  light  of  the  proposer  and  respondent’s  proof  and reasons  logically,  and  give  advice  for  the  reference  of  the  final  verdict.  This  paper, starting with the cohesion theory, is unfolding discussions from the angle of implicit and explicit cohesion. By comparing the cohesive characteristics between Confirming Facts of the Case and Tribunal Comments, this paper explores how different syntax relations, grammar and thematic progress patterns propel the achievement of logic reasoning. &nb本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。