The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse
This chapter examines contrastively the overt and non-overt coding of discourse
relations in British English and German editorials. Particular attention is given
to the linguistic coding of discourse relations between adjacently and non-adjacently
positioned discourse units, and to the question of granularity. In the
data, the discourse relation of Contrast is coded overtly in adjacent and nonadjacent
positioning in the two languages, while Continuation, Elaboration,
Explanation and Comment are coded differently. In the British data, there is a
clear preference for coding discourse relations between adjacently positioned
subordinating discourse relations overtly on the level of clause, and in the
German data, discourse relations holding between non-adjacently positioned
sentences are preferably marked overtly.
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