With the rapid development of entertainment news, entertainment news has gained more and more attention in recent years. While previous studies have been mainly conducted from the perspective of journalism, the present study focuses on the co-hesion strategies of the selected news discourse from the linguistic point of view. Cohesion is an important linguistic concept pro-posed by Halliday. This paper will analyze the news discourse from China Daily quantitatively and qualitatively. It is found that in the entertainment news discourse grammatical cohesive devices are commonly used. The present study attempts to analyze the co-hesive features of English entertainment news, so as to help readers improve the efficiency in English news reading.
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