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Publication details [#42197]

Thompson, Sandra A. and William C. Mann. 1988. Rhetorical structure theory: toward a functional theory of text organization. Text 8 (3) : 243–281.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative function | rhetoric | text organization

Place, Publisher

Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper aims at providing a new definitional foundation for Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) in order to make it more usable and examinable. It also explores three RST claims, amongst which text structure's communicative role.