论连贯假设的关联性解释

Relevance Explanation of Coherence Presumption

正常的交际过程中存在对传递信息的关联性承诺和假设:说话人传递相关的信息;听话人期待和寻找相关信息。关联性假设在语篇理解中表现为连贯假设。读者假设前文所含信息与后继语篇内容在语义上存在相关性,并通过推理手段完成语篇连贯的重构。

Linguistic communication contains the presumption of relevance ： the communicator normally conveys relevant information, and the addressee presumes and looks for it. In discourse comprehension, the presumption of relevance can be regarded as the presumption of coherence that the preceding contents are semantically relevant with the following parts. In light of this presumption the reader reconstructs the discourse coherence.