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n my paper. In all, as is pointed out by Yan Huang, Chomsky’s binding theories are inadequate in interpreting corefrence in Chinese, in which the situation is more complicated. 3. Cataphoric pronouns on the discourse-level After examining cataphors within sentences, we will extend our horizons beyound sentences to see what part cataphoric pronouns play in discourse. Halliday and Hasan points out that pronouns contribute a lot to establishing cohesive relations between sentences so as to bring about a continuity of meaning. However, pronouns in discouse not only function as cohesive devices but also display certain stylistic features. (26) Shei knows the trip will be useless, but what else can she do? Once a week the former mathematics professori, the mother of two school-age children, trudges through the sun-baked streets of Hebrat. Like every other woman who ventures into public in the western Afghan City, she wears a burqa, a shrowdlike, head-to-toe garment with only a gauze-covered slit enabling ger to see. To wear anything less would be a risk arrest or a beating by the Taliban militiamen who have ruled Heart for more than a yeat. At the gate of the university where she used to teach, she speaks to the bearded Islamic cleric who now rules the school. “May I have my job back?” She asks. “No,” he always replies, “It’s against the Koran.” (Newsweek, Oct.14, 1996) In this paragraph, the pronoun “she” heading the whole text refers to “the former mathematics professor” that presents itself later. The cataphoric use of pronoun creates anticipation, pushing the reader to read on so as to find out who “she” is and what happens to her. As a rhetoric device, the cataphoric pronoun is widely used in novels, poems, journalistic reports and advertisement writings. The following passage is an advertisement for a certain brand of watch. (27) Pretty, isn't shei? But you wouldn’t expect her to be tough and super-accurate, too. Until you know that beneath this feminine exterior beats a heart of pure Seiko Quartz. Even if you keep her in the jewel box, she’ll never need winding and always be right on time. This is just one of Seiko’s new generation of Ladies Quartz Watchesi. Seiko Ladies know what it means to be fashionable. Combined with personification, the initial pronoun “she”, repeatedly occurring, arouses suspense in the reader and thus leaves a foregrounded impression. (28) It was now lunchtime and theyi were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened. “Will you have time juice or lemon squash?” Macomberi asked. “I’ll have a gimlet,” Robert Willsoni told him. (The opening sentences from Hemingway’s The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber) In these sentences, the use of “they”, together with the use of definite articles, helps to sympathetically involve the reader as a participator in the story. As a usual technique of novels, it is called “in medias res” (“in the known”). Up to this point, I have given a general introduction of the use of cataphors and the stylistic effects they create in English discourse. In Chinese, in fact, the situation is more or less the same.　The following example is taken from 刘礼进（１９９７）．　(29) 但是，在光明中学党支部办公室里，当黑瘦而结实的支部书记老曹，用信任的眼光望着初三（三）班班主任张俊石老师，换一种方式向他提出这个问题时，张老师并不以为奇怪荒唐．他只是极其严肃地考　了一分钟左右，便断然回答说：“好吧！我愿意认识他i．．．．．．” 事情是这样的：前些日子，公安局从拘留所把小流氓宋宝裿i放了出来．．．．．．　　　　　　　　　　　(刘心武＜<班主任>＞) The above examples ind