语篇照应与语篇理解

Discourse Reference and Discourse Comprehension

本文从Halliday和Hasan关于语篇照应的理论出发,指出其静态分析对语篇照应解释的局限性。然后主要运用语篇世界和心理表征两个方面的知识对语篇照应进行了新的分析,并指出了语篇照应的实质是具有指代功能的语言成分共同指代语篇世界中的语篇指称;或者是这些语言成分通过读者心理表征中的指称形成的照应关系。本文还随之阐述了语篇照应在语篇理解中的作用机理。

Beginning with Halliday & Hasan's theory on discourse reference, this paper firstly points out the limitations of static analysis on discourse reference. Then it employs the knowledge of discourse world and mental representation to make a new analysis of discourse and concludes that the nature of reference is reference items' co-reference of the discourse entity in the discourse world; or the referential relationship between these reference items via the reference in the reader's mental representation. Last the paper illustrates the working mechanism of discourse reference in discourse comprehension.