关联理论对语篇连贯性的解释力

The explanatory power of relevance theory to discourse coherence

本文探讨Ｓｐｅｒｂｅｒ和Ｗｉｌｓｏｎ的关联理论对语篇连贯性的解释力。文章从语篇连贯性的关联解释入手探讨语言学家对关联与连贯的关系的看法，分析关联理论对连贯理论的补充，并阐述了关联理论在解释语篇连贯性方面所存在的不足。关联理论能在一定程度上解释语篇的连贯性，但应该把连贯看作是一个独立于关联的概念。

Abstract This paper sets out to investigate the explanatory power of Sperber and Wilson's (1986,1995) relevance theory to discourse coherence. Following some linguists approach in the framework of relevance theory, the author discusses some of thecontributions of relevance theory to the coherence_based study of discourse and some of the limitations of the relevance_based approach. The paper holds that relevance theory could provide insights into discourse coherence to some extent, but coherence should be conceived of as a notion independent of relevance.