Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization

Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization. Mann, W. C. & Thompson, S. A. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 8(3):243–281, 1988.

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Rhetorical Structure Theory is a descriptive theory of a major aspect of the organization of natural text. It is a linguistically useful method for describing natural texts, characterizing their structure primarily in terms of relations that hold between parts of the text. This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for RST. The paper also examines three claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus/satellite structural patterns, the functional basis of hierarchy, and the communicative role of text structure.

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	abstract = {Rhetorical Structure Theory is a descriptive theory of a major aspect of the organization of natural text. It is a linguistically useful method for describing natural texts, characterizing their structure primarily in terms of relations that hold between parts of the text. This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for RST. The paper also examines three claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus/satellite structural patterns, the functional basis of hierarchy, and the communicative role of text structure.},
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	number = {3},
	urldate = {2024-11-19},
	journal = {Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse},
	author = {Mann, William C. and Thompson, Sandra A.},
	year = {1988},
	keywords = {corpling, discourse},
	pages = {243--281},
}

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