The pragmatics of discourse coherence : theories and applications / edited by Helmut Gruber, University of Vienna, Gisela Redeker, University of Groningen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gruber, Helmut, 1928- editor.

Redeker, Gisela, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 254.

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 254

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohesion (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on a corpus of Austrian students' texts from three disciplines (personnel management, business psychology, economic history) analysed with Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), this paper investigates the macro-structural expectations which tables of content (ToCs) raise, the cues by which these expectations are triggered, and the "predictive quality" of ToCs. The ToCs in the personnel management group's texts offer the best "prediction" of the actual macrostructures,whereas in the other two groups ToC and textual macro-structures diverge from each other in various ways. The analysis also shows a

Contents:

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 connectives 4. 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. Conclusion References; 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 relations The 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

Appendix Resolving 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

2. The emergence of the 'text'-'image' issue within linguistics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027269232

9027269238

OCLC:

895047887