本文運用話語分析理論與方法，以呂赫若敘事作品〈牛車〉為對象，嘗試描述話語作為殖民情境的標記，分析話語對內如何銜接篇章，顯現文本的內延功能，對外如何顯示社會主題。本論文認為敘事作品是一個符號系統，而意義單位的切分和描寫層次的區別，可以顯明敘事如何組織一個指意域，以及如何將指意單位編置於其中。呂赫若敘事作品〈牛車〉的敘述文本，呈現豐富的指意過程及話語層次，此一敘述組織介引出相應的歷史、社會、文化的課題，論證了故事中殖民情境下的淳樸素民之無力、無能、之為純然的悲劇之必然性。話語分析命題的焦點閱讀，當有助於台灣文學史之語言、歷史、社會、文化的多層次的重新編碼。

This paper attempts to describe, in terms of discourse analysis, Lu Her-jo's narrative piece "The Cattle Cart" as colonially-marked. Ⅰ argue, in this paper, that a narrative piece is a system of significations in itself, and a description as such exposes this piece to all related social issues, which in turn witnesses that this piece combines to its textual cohesive devices and its intensional textual functions thereof. A division of analytical units proves all this, relating the speech levels due in the text of "The Cattle Cart" respectively to the social, historical, and cultural problems which the people there are socially, historically, and culturally faced with. The pure people there, colonially situated, are thus forced to live their lives only as pure tragedies, powerless and just incapable. A discourse analysis of the narrative piece as such really helps to recodify the literary history of Taiwan-on the levels of language, history, society and culture.