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Based on a corpus of Austrian students' texts from three disciplines (personnelmanagement, business psychology, economic history) analysed with RhetoricalStructure Theory (RST), this paper investigates the macro-structural expectationswhich tables of content (ToCs) raise, the cues by which thes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gruber, Helmut, 1928- (Editor ), Redeker, Gisela (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; ner ser., 254.
Temas:
Cohesion (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis.
Pragmatics.
Cohérence discursive.
Pragmatique.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Discourse analysis
Pragmatics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Based on a corpus of Austrian students' texts from three disciplines (personnelmanagement, business psychology, economic history) analysed with RhetoricalStructure Theory (RST), this paper investigates the macro-structural expectationswhich tables of content (ToCs) raise, the cues by which these expectationsare triggered, and the "predictive quality" of ToCs. The ToCs in the personnelmanagement group's texts offer the best "prediction" of the actual macrostructures, whereas in the other two groups ToC and textual macro-structuresdiverge from each other in various ways. The analysis also shows a
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027269232
9027269238
ISSN:0922-842X ;

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