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The pragmatics of discourse coherence : theories and applications /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
ner ser., 254. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse coherence; 1. Coherence relations; 2. Signalling coherence relations; 3. Coherence relations, hierarchical structure, and genre; 4. Multimodal discourse; 5. The contributions to this volume; References; Part I. Coherence and genre; Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Explicit and implicit coherence relations; 1.2 Genre; 2. Corpus; 3. Analysis; 3.1 Coherence relations; 3.2 Move analysis.
- 3.3 Analysis of discourse connectives4. Results; 4.1 Explicit and implicit relations; 4.1.1 Explicit and implicit relations within and between moves; 4.1.2 Explicit and implicit relations at different levels in the discourse structure; 4.1.3 Explicit and implicit instances of expansion, semantic, and pragmatic relations; 4.2 Stratified analyses of the three relation types; 4.2.1 Expansion, semantic and pragmatic relations within and between moves; 4.2.2 Expansion, semantic and pragmatic relations at different levels in the discourse structure; 4.3 Analysis of individual RST relations.
- 5. ConclusionReferences; Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science news; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Generic structure and coherence relations; 1.2 Science news and its generic structure; 1.3 Contrastive coherence relations; 1.4 Evaluation; 2. Corpus and methods; 3. Results; 3.1 Discovery Contrast; 3.2 Background Contrast; 3.3 Result Contrast; 3.4 Limitation Contrast; 3.5 Conclusive Contrast; 3.6 Contrasts involving other meanings; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Semantic perspective; 4.2 Contextual perspective; 4.3 Textual perspective; 5. Conclusion; References.
- Part II. The signalling of coherence relationsThe coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse; 1. Introduction; 2. Discourse relations and thematic progression; 2.1 Discourse relations; 2.2 Thematic progression and multiple themes; 3. Adjacency and granularity; 3.1 Granularity; 3.2 Adjacency; 4. Contrastive analysis of English and German argumentative discourse; 4.1 The British editorials; 4.2 The German editorials; 4.3 Comparison between German and English editorials; 5. Experimental discourse comprehension ; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References.
- AppendixResolving connective ambiguity: A prerequisite for discourse parsing; 1. Introduction: Coherence relations and discourse parsing; 1.1 Theories of discourse structure; 1.2 Discourse parsing and local coherence analysis; 2. Connectives and cue phrases; 3. Connective ambiguity in English; 3.1 The size of the problem; 3.2 Disambiguation methods; 4. Connective ambiguity in German; 4.1 The size of the problem; 4.2 Disambiguation methods; 5. Summary and conclusions; References; Part III. Coherence in multimodal discourse; Multimodal coherence research and its applications; 1. Introduction.