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In:The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence: Theories and applications
Edited by Helmut Gruber and Gisela Redeker
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 254] 2014
► pp. 23–52

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Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts

Published online: 26 November 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.254.02vli
This study explores some of the factors that influence the probability that a coherence relation will be explicitly marked with a connective. In a corpus of 80 Dutch texts from expository and persuasive genres with annotations of the coherence structure (using Rhetorical Structure Theory, RST) and the genre-specific structure (using move analysis), we investigate the roles and interactions of genre, level in the hierarchical discourse structure, and type of coherence relation.
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