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rhetorical structure theory: a standalone construct

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Discourse analysis

a description of text organization as hierarchies of relations between parts, such as elaboration or contrast, with nucleus and satellite spans.

In discourse analysis, rhetorical structure theory refers to a description of text organization as hierarchies of relations between parts, such as elaboration or contrast, with nucleus and satellite spans. This meaning comes from Mann (1988) in Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse.[1]

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Mann, W. C., & Thompson, S. A. (1988). Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 8(3). https://doi.org/10.1515/text.1.1988.8.3.243

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