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Disambiguating Rhetorical Structure

Research on Language and Computation, 2008
Empirical studies of text coherence often use tree-like structures in the spirit of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) as representational device. This paper identifies several sources of ambiguity in RST-inspired trees and argues that such structures are therefore not as explanatory as a text representation should be.
Stede, Manfred (Prof. Dr.)
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Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory

Discourse Studies, 2006
Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is a theory of text organization that has led to areas of application beyond discourse analysis and text generation, its original goals. In this article, we review the most important applications in several areas: discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.
Maite Taboada, William C Mann
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Argumentative Text as Rhetorical Structure: An Application of Rhetorical Structure Theory

Argumentation, 1999
Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), as a tool for analyzing written texts, is particularly appropriate for analyzing argumentative texts. The distinction that RST makes between the part of a text that realizes the primary goal of the writer, termed nucleus, and the part that provides supplementary material, termed satellite, is crucial for the analysis ...
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‘Narrative structure’, ‘rhetorical structure’, ‘text structure’

English Text Construction, 2023
Abstract The paper seeks to provide a cognitive-linguistic re-interpretation of the centuries-old notion of whole-text structure . The investigation presented here draws on 317 data sources selected through a scoping literature review. The paper demonstrates how
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The Rhetorical Structure of Hebrews

New Testament Studies, 1989
Hebrews is the most accomplished writing in the New Testament. The unknown author's command of the art of rhetoric is universally recognized. He was evidently well educated by the standards of Hellenistic education of the time. His use of Greek is more cultivated than that of Paul, and he makes greater use of rhetorical devices than Luke.
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The Rhetorical Structure of Attribution

Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking 2019, 2019
The relational status of Attribution in Rhetorical Structure Theory has been a matter of ongoing debate. Although several researchers have weighed in on the topic, and although numerous studies have relied upon attributional structures for their analyses, nothing approaching consensus has emerged.
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Rhetorical structure and Galatians

1998
It has become practically axiomatic since the appearance of Hans Dieter Betz's Hermeneia commentary that study of the argument and structure of Galatians begins with classical rhetoric. Betz's assertions that ‘The body of [Galatians] is constructed as a defense speech using argumentative, judicial rhetoric’, and that, as a result, ‘Paul's letter to the
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RHETORICAL STRUCTURE IN TERTULLIAN'S AD SCAPULAM

Vigiliae Christianae, 2002
Cet article etudie la structure rethorique d'un texte tardif de Tertullien (155-220) , le Ad Scapulam, texte adresse a Scapula, alors proconsul d'Afrique. Ayant expose la structure rethorique de ce texte, l'A. montre qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un texte a visee apologetique, voire du resume d'un de ses traites, mais d'un plaidoyer reclamant le demantelement ...
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Classifying Visual Rhetoric: Conceptual and Structural Heuristics

2014
This chapter discusses a number of problems and heuristics with regard to identifying and analyzing classes of visual rhetoric in commercial ads. The chapter argues that clear-cut structural and conceptual classes of visual rhetoric do not sufficiently take into account the interpretation subtleties and ambiguities present in visual rhetoric.
Maes, A., Schilperoord, J.
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Lexical cohesion and rhetorical structure

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2006
Lexical cohesion not only contributes to the texture of a text, it can help to indicate the rhetorical development of the discourse. This article looks at this argument-structuring function of lexical cohesion first by considering single texts using the techniques of classical Discourse Analysis and then by using the methodology of corpus linguistics ...
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