Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the… read more
Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh
Cognitive models, perspectives, and the construction of situated meaning have always been core concepts in Cognitive Linguistics. The papers in this volume present applications of those concepts to the study of discourse phenomena like the use and interpretation of metaphors, modal expressions,… read more
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)… read more
This paper reports preliminary results. from an ongoing project investigating the alignment between coherence structure and lexical cohesion in thematically organized expository texts (encyclopedia entries) and intentionally structured persuasive texts (fundraising letters) at the global level of… read more
This paper proposes an approach to discourse structure that builds on syntactic structure to derive that part of discourse structure that can be captured without taking recourse to deep semantic or conceptual knowledge. This contribution is typically only partial; we intend to capture this… read more
