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Publication details [#21132]

Mann, William C., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Discourse description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text. John Benjamins. pp. 39–78.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | communication | rhetoric | text analysis

Annotation

This paper presents a theory of textual communication, the rhetorical structure theory, which accounts for text coherence.