Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 65', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Linking advertíais 875 Epistemic stance markers can also be used for emphasis I need the person to go with because definitely you need a person to go with. conv In this example the reason clause does not give a reason it simply restates the idea of the main clause with a stance adverbial conveying certainty. The above examples serve to illustrate the point that stance adverbials can be multi-functional in discourse. Though these functions can be important in all registers they are often most obvious in conversation see 5 . Linking adverbials As described in the primary function of linking adverbials is to state the speaker writer s perception of the relationship between two units of discourse. Because they explicitly signal the connections between passages of text linking adverbials are important devices for creating textual cohesion alongside coordinators and subordinators . Semantic categories of linking adverbials A variety of different relationships can be marked by linking adverbials. We distinguish six general semantic categories described below. Enumeration and addition Linking adverbials can be used for the enumeration of pieces of information in an order chosen by the speaker writer and for the addition of items of discourse to one another. Linking adverbials used for enumeration include ordinal numbers such as first and second and adverbs such as finally and lastly as well as other structures such as prepositional phrases This new structure must accomplish two special purposes. First as a pan of overcoming the division of Europe there must be an opportunity to overcome through peace and freedom the division of Berlin and of Germany. Second the architecture should reflect that American s security remains linked to Europe news We are already acquainted with six properties which may be used to describe the thermodynamic state of a system pressure volume temperature internal energy enthalpy and entropy . . Lastly .
