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The structuring of information in written English text
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For example, this article found that sentence punctuation was clearly used to emphasize relevant points and information which was placed at the ends of the punctuated sentences regularly correlated with information that was obviously important for the reader to remember.About:
This article is published in Language Sciences.The article was published on 1992-10-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Punctuation & Sentence.read more
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Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory
Maite Taboada,William C. Mann +1 more
TL;DR: The most important applications of RST are reviewed in several areas: discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.
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Theme and thematic patterns in Spanish and English history texts
TL;DR: The authors compare published history textbooks written for upper-secondary/tertiary study in the U.S. and Spain using Halliday's (1994) Theme/Rheme construct.
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The language of business codes of ethics: Implications of knowledge and power
TL;DR: The language used in the corporate codes examined construct an authoritarian position in the writer/reader relationship from the overuse of grammatical structures such as relational clauses, the passive, nominalisation, grammatical metaphor and modality which communicate a strong sense of obligation and even powerlessness.
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Register and the Redemption of Relevance Theory The case of metaphor
TL;DR: Goatly as mentioned in this paper argues that Gricean theory and relevance theory are flawed through their failure to consider cultural and social context, but that attempts to relate linguistic pragmatics to more socially-conscious models of language use may produce interesting cross-fertilization and be beneficial to both.
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An Introduction to Functional Grammar
TL;DR: Part 1 The clause: constituency towards a functional grammar clause as message clause as exchange clause as representation and above, below and beyond the clause: below the clause - groups and phrases above the clauses - the clause complex additional.
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Notes on transitivity and theme in english. part 2
TL;DR: The Journal of Linguistics as discussed by the authors published this paper in three parts, in this and the two subsequent issues of the Journal of Language and Literature, in order to deal with the themes in the clause.
Rhetorical structure theory: a theory of text organization
TL;DR: This paper establishes a new definitional foundation for RST, Definitions are made more systematic and explicit, they introduce a new functional element, and incidentally reflect more experience in text analysis.