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摘要：如果从Winterowd《连贯的语法》一文算起;那么国内外连贯研究已经有四十年的历史了。四十年来;连贯研究出现了语言形式研究、语用推理研究、功能语法研究和认知心理研究等四类方法。而且;这四类方法有一个共同的预设:连贯是篇章语言学的一个规则性概念。围绕这一预设的连贯研究;尽管成果丰硕;但始终未能解决连贯的理论化问题。究其原因;现有的连贯研究虽然认识到了"有衔接而无连贯"这一"恩克维斯特问题";但未能清算该问题彰显出的认识论的"范畴错误"。在语言哲学视域下;连贯问题其实是一个语言哲学问题;连贯不是规则性概念而是规范性概念。因此;四十年后的连贯研究应该再进一步:应该开启连贯的语言哲学研究;从而探索乃至解决连贯的理论化问题。

Ever since the publication of Winterowd’s The Grammar of Coherence,coherence analysis has witnessed four types of approaches during a period of forty years.The four approaches,the linguistic-formal approach,the pragmatic-inferential approach,the functional-grammatical approach and the mental-cognitive approach,have been chained to a shared presupposition that coherence is a rule-governed concept in textual linguistics.Based on this conception,a lot of papers and works have been published,but the theorization of coherence analysis remains unaccomplished.The reason is that coherence analysts have failed to avoid a category mistake in epistemology although they have noticed the Enkvist problem.It is held in this paper that coherence is a normative concept in the domain of philosophy of language.Therefore,coherence analysis should be conducted from the perspective of philosophy of language so as to theorize the concept of coherence.