TAKEI Mitsuko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Global and Community Studies    Position   Professor
Date	2004/03
Presentation Theme	Understanding cohesion in Japanese text: Zero anaphora as invisible cohesive ties
Conference	ATJ Seminar 2004 (Association of Teachers of Japanese)
Promoters	ATJ
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Venue	San Diego, USA
Publisher and common publisher	Miho Fujiwara & Mitsuko Yamura-Takei
Details	In this presentation, we demonstrated how zero anaphora (henceforth zeros) are used as cohesive ties and contribute to maintaining topic continuity in Japanese text, and presented an analysis of a less studied type of zeros, zero adnominal anaphora (henceforth zero adnominals), and argued. The implications of the analyses of zeros for teaching cohesion and reading comprehension were also discussed.