关联理论视阈下的语篇话题与连贯

Discourse Topic and Coherence from the Perspective of Relevance Theory

连贯是语篇的重要的特征之一,Beaugrande & Dressler还把连贯作为语篇性的七个标准之一。语篇话题即语篇内一系列句子命题所共同蕴含的复杂命题,是语篇的中心思想,对语篇连贯的理解起着重要的作用。关联理论在语篇话题对连贯理解的作用方面有较强的解释力。

Coherence is one of the important properties of a text. Beaugrande and Dressler also regard it as one of the seven criteria of textuality, Discourse topic is a complex preposition entailed by a joint set of propositions of a sequence of sentences in a text. It is what a text is about, and it plays an important role in their interpretation of textual coherence. Relevance theory demonstrates a strong explanatory force in explaining the role of discourse topic over textual coherence interpretation,