abstract thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. the theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. the present study aimed to examine how iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...

RASTA (Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer), a system for automatic discourse analysis, reliably, identifies rhetorical relations present m written discourse by examining information available in syntactic and logical form analyses. Since there is a many-to-many relationship between rhetorical relations and elements of linguistic form, RASTA identifies relations by the convergence of a number ...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...

Knowledge about the rhetorical structure of a text is useful for automatic abstraction. We are interested in the automatic extraction of rhetorical units from the source text, units such as Problem Statement, Conclusions and Results. We want to use such extracts to generate high-compression abstracts of scientiic articles. In this paper, we present an extension of Kupiec, Pedersen and Chen's (1...

Rhetorical biset functors can be defined for any family of finite groups that is closed under subquotients up to isomorphism. The rhetorical p-biset functors almost coincide with the rational p-biset functors. We show that, over a field with characteristic zero, the rhetorical biset functors are semisimple and, furthermore, they admit a character theory involving primitive characters of automor...

The article discusses the criticism of civilization presented in interwar travel literature. author points out that critical attitude towards European is directly related to modernist paradigm. Interwar writers-travellers express their views using existing rhetorical figures, treating modern city as a metonymy civilization. Therefore, they use simple contrasts, such culture-nature, disease-heal...

With this analogy, I view rhetorical relations as realization of intentions. Furthermore, this analogy leads me to believe that rhetorical relations should be as numerous and varied as there are relations among actions and objects in the domain. This view seems to be in conflict with Dale's view (in this proceedings) which argues that rhetorical relation should only include textual relations ra...

this study was set to reveal how second language learners use rhetorical relations in their written narratives in terms of rhetorical structure theory (rst) primarily proposed by mann & thompson (1987) and developed by mann, matthiessen & thompson (1992). to this end, sixty written narratives based on the picture story book ‘frog, where are you?’ were collected from efl learners and wer...

abstract rhetorical structure is helpful in improving how the writers maintain cohesion in their writings. this study examines how the iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the various rhetorical moves in azzaman, an online iraqi newspaper. to this purpose, twelve opinion articles from azzaman iraqi newspaper, published from january 2013 to june 2013 were analyzed. the findin...