The Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence in Susan E.Rice’ s Commencement Address(Excerpt) at Stanford University

This paper analyzes the cohesion and coherence of Susan E.Rice commencement address at Stanford University in2010(Excerpt)from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.A conclusion can be drawn that this part of the speech is highly cohesive and coherent both grammatically and textually no matter from ideational meaning,interpersonal meaning and textual meaning.