语篇连贯是目前语篇分析中的一个热门话题。连贯的概念由来已久,但真正受到语言学家的重视也就是近四五十年的事情。大约从20世纪六七十年代开始,国外语言学家逐渐关注语篇的连贯问题,形成了一些有关语篇连贯的理论体系,如韩礼德、哈桑的衔接和语域理论,凡·戴克的宏观结构理论,威多逊的言外行为理论,布朗、俞尔的心理框架理论,丹奈士、福利士的主位推进理论,曼恩等的修辞结构理论等。国内学者在介绍国外理论和研究成果的同时,也逐步建立了自己的语篇研究模式,发表了一系列的论文和著作。其中,有代表性的主要有:廖秋忠《现代汉语篇章中的连接成分》(1986),胡壮麟《语篇的衔接与连贯》(1994),屈承熹《汉语 Discourse coherence is a hot topic in discourse analysis. The concept of coherence has a long history, but the real concern of linguists is nearly forty or fifty years. From the 1960s and 1970s, foreign linguists gradually focused on the coherence of discourse and formed some theoretical systems about the coherence of discourse, such as Halliday’s and Hassan’s cohesion and register theories, Macrostructure Theory, Wittinson’s Extrajudicial Behavioral Theory, Brown’s and Yu’s Psychological Framework Theory, Dannis’s Theorist’s Thematic Progression Theory, and Mann’s Rhetorical Structure Theory. While introducing foreign theories and research achievements, domestic scholars have gradually established their own discourse research models and published a series of papers and books. Among them, the representative ones include: Liao Ch’iu-chung’s “Connections in Modern Chinese Texts” (1986); Hu Zhuanglin’s Cohesion and Coherence of Texts (1994); Qu Chengxi’s Chinese