《都柏林人》是詹姆斯·乔伊斯著名的短篇小说集。该作品主要刻画了20世纪初期都柏林中下阶层的生活,揭示了都柏林作为一个“瘫痪的中心”的方方面面。主题的凸现离不开情节的铺垫,但更重要的是作者写作技巧在字里行间的运用。本文从系统功能语言学的角度,以短篇小说集中的15个故事为实例,分析了作品在词汇、关联、指称和文学外延等四个方面的语篇衔接连贯特色。作为20世纪最有影响的作家之一,詹姆斯·乔伊 Dublin is the famous collection of short stories by James Joyce. The work mainly portrays the life of the middle and lower classes in Dublin in the early 20th century and reveals all aspects of Dublin as a “paralyzed center.” The highlight of the theme is inseparable from the plot, but more importantly, the author’s writing skills in the use of words between lines. From the perspective of systematic functional linguistics, this paper analyzes the cohesion and coherence of discourse in the four aspects of vocabulary, relevance, allegation and literary extension with 15 stories in short stories as an example. James Joy, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century