Abstract: Examination the means of local coherence of the text, namely various auxiliary units, such as conjunctions and conjunctive means, particles, pronouns, hybrid units, etc., remains relevant in studying the text. Same means of textual coherence are classified by the linguists depending on the vector of research. The subject of this article is the discursive word ‘however’. Discursive words are an important part of text studying, and textual coherence in particular. The object of this article is the functionality of the word ‘however’ in the instance of ending narration, as well as the corresponding contextual modification “ending of description / discussion”. The contexts for linguistic analysis that largely contain the word ‘however’ were taken from the Russian National Corpus. Analysis is conducted on the contexts of fiction and popular science styles. The scientific novelty of research consists in examination of the peculiarities of using the word ‘however’ in combination with other words (enough, no more, never mind), as well as the specificity of formation of syntactic constructions with the word ‘however’. The conclusion is made the speaker can end narration, description, discussion due to unwillingness or inexpediency to continue the thought, or due to shifting  onto a new aspect of the given situation.