COHESIVE DEVICES AND TRANSLATION: AN ANALYSIS

analysis, systemic grammar and cognitive psychology have con-tributed to the development of a descriptive theory of translation, in contrast to the traditional prescriptive approach. In a descriptive approach to translation, one major concern is to identify the kinds of knowledge that are used by the translator (Bell, 1991). As Bell observes, the translator ' s communicative competence is made up of various kinds of linguistic and social knowledge in both the source and the target language. In the present paper, I will analyze one as-pect of the linguistic knowledge that translators must possess — knowledge about textual cohesion. Beaugrande and Dressler (1981) regard cohesion as one of the seven standards of textuality (p. 3). Therefore, in order to be com-municative a text must be organized, and this organization can be achieved through the use of cohesive devices. Carter (1987:72) defines cohesion as "the term... [that] embraces the means by whic