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Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization
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This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for RST and examines three Claims of RST: the predominance of nucleus/satellite structural pattems, the functional basis of hierarchy, and the communicative role oftext Structure.
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Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar
This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role…
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Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse
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Interaction and grammar: Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns
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The acquisition of tone in Mandarin-speaking children
ABSTRACT Until now, although there has been research on the acquisition of intonation and stress, there has been no systematic study of the acquisition of lexical tone. Based on data collected during…
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The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin
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Rhetorical Structure Theory: Description and Construction of Text Structures
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This paper details the current status of descriptive RST, along with efforts to create a constructive version for use as a basis for programming a text planner.
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Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis
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Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), the focus of this paper, is a way to account for the functional potential of text, its capacity to achieve the purposes of speakers and produce effects in hearers, and shows away to distinguish coherent texts from incoherent ones, and identifies consequences of text structure.
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Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Texts
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Rhetorical Structure Theory is a theory of text organization which provides a framework for an analysis of text, and its mechanisms and applications include studies of clause combining, coherence and assertional effects of discourse structure.
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Relational propositions in discourse
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Examining two natural texts, it is seen that the relational propositions involve every clause, and that they occur in a pattern of propositions which connects all of the clauses together.
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