论语篇的衔接和谐与连贯程度

Halliday&Hasan(1985)提出了衔接和谐理论,并力图以此衡量语篇连贯的程度。但衔接和谐理论对语篇连贯程度予以定量分析的理论目标与语篇连贯的盖然性特征相抵触;其衡量语篇连贯程度的三项参数在考察对象和具体操作手段上也存在不足,因此,衔接和谐在衡量语篇连贯程度方面也有其不足之处。同时,语篇连贯也并不一定蕴涵其在衔接上的和谐。但是,衔接和谐理论有力地推动了“语篇连贯具有不同程度”的思想的深入发展。

Cohesive Harmony and Textual Coherence

Cohesive harmony was first proposed by Halliday & Hasan(1985) and was meant to be a measuring device of textual coherence.The theory of Cohesive Harmony,however,for its theoretical objective contradictory to the probabilicity of textual coherence and the three measuring parameters problematic in terms of the scope to be examined and the principles for data processing,can hardly be equated to an adequqte measuring device of textual coherence.The theory of Cohesive Harmony,though does not fulfill the designated objective,has factually shattered away the absolutistic stance toward coherence and thus rendered the development of the relativistic idea of textual coherence.