西方关于语篇主题的心理语言学研究

语篇主题的建构是语篇理解的主要目的，它通过主题推理加工来实现。从心理语言学角度出发，分析主题和主题推理的性质，可以看出，主题推理存在自动加工和策略性加工两种方式；主题推理加工能力会随着年龄的增加不断发展完善，阅读能力较低个体的语篇理解困难是推理加工的缺陷造成的，这些进一步证明了推理加工对语篇理解的重要作用。

Occidental Psycholinguistic Research of Theme of Discourse

Construction of the theme of discourse was the purpose of discourse comprehension, which was realized by the thematic inference. From the view of psycholinguistics, the article analyzes the essential of the theme and thematic inference, and it also points out that there are two styles of thematic inference. The ability of thematic inference develops as aging, the deficits of thematic inference is the reason of the comprehension difficulty. All the above evidences prove the important role of thematic inference.