Suh, Sung-Kyo. 2000. A Relevance-Based Approach to English Discourse Connectives. Journal of the Linguistic Association of Korea, 8(3), 65-85. In this paper, I attempt to discuss some problems of English discourse connectives with respect to the relevance theory. Coherence theorists regard them as guiding the assignment of coherence relations and relevance theorists regard them as guiding the search for relevance. Coherence-based approaches tend to think in terms of texts, and relevance-based approaches in terms of process. Coherence-based approaches appeal to coherence relations, while relevance theorists appeal to contextual effects. Within the framework of relevance theory, I`ll show discourse connectives link not two discourse units but an utterance and a context or contextual effects. Secondly, I`ll discuss the relevance based approach to discourse connectives has more explanatory value than the coherence based one with respect to their truth-conditionality. Finally, I`ll discuss the function of the various discourse connectives is not necessarily linked to a particular contextual effect. (Hanlyo University)