TY  - GEN
T1  - The pragmatics of discourse coherence : theories and applications
T2  - Pragmatics & beyond ;
A2  - Gruber, Helmut, 1928-
A2  - Redeker, Gisela
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn895047887
AB  - Based on a corpus of Austrian students' texts from three disciplines (personnelmanagement, business psychology, economic history) analysed with RhetoricalStructure Theory (RST), this paper investigates the macro-structural expectationswhich tables of content (ToCs) raise, the cues by which these expectationsare triggered, and the "predictive quality" of ToCs. The ToCs in the personnelmanagement group's texts offer the best "prediction" of the actual macrostructures, whereas in the other two groups ToC and textual macro-structuresdiverge from each other in various ways. The analysis also shows a
CN  - P302.2 .P63 2014eb
SN  - 9789027269232
SN  - 9027269238
SN  - 9789027256591
SN  - 9027256594
KW  - Cohesion (Linguistics)
KW  - Discourse analysis.
KW  - Pragmatics.
KW  - Cohérence discursive.
KW  - Pragmatique.
KW  - pragmatics.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : General.
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -