These seven standards function as the constitutive principles of textual communication,which is an important contribution to theory building in text linguistics and also greatly affect the research in contrastive rhetoric,translation studies,language teaching,and communication across cultures.

This paper, based on a brief discussion of some definitions of text, investigates major text linguistic schools of thought and constitutive principles of textual communication,so that a better understanding can be obtained.

This article attempts to analyze the mechanism that culture exerts an influence on the communicative discourse,which will benefit and solve the cultural problem met in the foreign language teaching and cross-cultural communication.

A communicative discourse is the concept of a whole.

The Discourse Function of Inversion in Pride and Prejudice;

The discourse-pragmatic approach to syntax focuses on the selection of syntactic structures and the discourse functions of syntactic structures from the perspective of their emerging discourse environments.

The systematicity of metaphorical concepts and the interaction between the conceptual domains of metaphor endow me-taphor with discourse functions.