William C Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 165002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William C Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | William C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent researcher |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rhetorical structure theory: A framework for the analysis of texts
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Assertions from Discourse Structure
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 245-258
Assertions from Discourse Structure
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 245-258
Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory
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. We also provide a list of resources useful for work within the RST framework. The present article is a comp…
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking Back and Moving Ahead
Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. In this article, we review some of the discussions about the theory itself, especially addressing issues of the reliability of analyses and psychological validity, tog…
Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily seen.The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organizat…
Discourse description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text
Functions of language in two frameworks
Some of the most central problems in linguistics concern how language fills its characteristic roles: how it is useful, the nature and extent of its translatability, and the nature of the integrity of texts. Within linguistics there are many kinds of description that bear on such questions, one kind being the description of language in terms of its functions. Comparing these functional descriptions, the various descriptions do not all cover the s…
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization
Relational propositions in discourse
In addition to the propositions represented explicitly by independent clauses in a text, there are almost as many propositions, here called relational propositions, which arise (often implicitly) out of combinations of these clauses. The predicates of these propositions are members of a small set of general, highly recurrent relational predicates, such as “cause,” “justification,” and “solutionhood.” Often unsignalled, these relational propositio…
The anatomy of a systemic choice∗
Systemic grammar is one of the major varieties of syntactic theory in modern linguistics. It was originally defined by Michael A. K. Halliday around 1960 and has since been developed extensively by him and others. Unlike transformational grammar, systemic grammar is oriented to the ways that language functions for its users. Systemic grammars have been used in several well-known language-processing programs and have been found to be very advantag…
Relational propositions in discourse
In addition to the propositions represented explicitly by independent clauses in a text, there are almost as many propositions, here called relational propositions, which arise (often implicitly) out of combinations of these clauses. The predicates of these propositions are members of a small set of general, highly recurrent relational predicates, such as “cause,” “justification,” and “solutionhood.” Often unsignalled, these relational propositio…
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking Back and Moving Ahead
Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. In this article, we review some of the discussions about the theory itself, especially addressing issues of the reliability of analyses and psychological validity, tog…
Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory
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. We also provide a list of resources useful for work within the RST framework. The present article is a comp…
Functions of language in two frameworks
Some of the most central problems in linguistics concern how language fills its characteristic roles: how it is useful, the nature and extent of its translatability, and the nature of the integrity of texts. Within linguistics there are many kinds of description that bear on such questions, one kind being the description of language in terms of its functions. Comparing these functional descriptions, the various descriptions do not all cover the s…
Hispanic Older Adult's Perceptions of Personal, Contextual and Technology-Related Barriers for Using Assistive Technology Devices
The anatomy of a systemic choice∗
Systemic grammar is one of the major varieties of syntactic theory in modern linguistics. It was originally defined by Michael A. K. Halliday around 1960 and has since been developed extensively by him and others. Unlike transformational grammar, systemic grammar is oriented to the ways that language functions for its users. Systemic grammars have been used in several well-known language-processing programs and have been found to be very advantag…
The anatomy of a systemic choice∗
Systemic grammar is one of the major varieties of syntactic theory in modern linguistics. It was originally defined by Michael A. K. Halliday around 1960 and has since been developed extensively by him and others. Unlike transformational grammar, systemic grammar is oriented to the ways that language functions for its users. Systemic grammars have been used in several well-known language-processing programs and have been found to be very advantag…
Relational propositions in discourse
In addition to the propositions represented explicitly by independent clauses in a text, there are almost as many propositions, here called relational propositions, which arise (often implicitly) out of combinations of these clauses. The predicates of these propositions are members of a small set of general, highly recurrent relational predicates, such as “cause,” “justification,” and “solutionhood.” Often unsignalled, these relational propositio…
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization
Functions of language in two frameworks
Some of the most central problems in linguistics concern how language fills its characteristic roles: how it is useful, the nature and extent of its translatability, and the nature of the integrity of texts. Within linguistics there are many kinds of description that bear on such questions, one kind being the description of language in terms of its functions. Comparing these functional descriptions, the various descriptions do not all cover the s…
Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily seen.The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organizat…
Discourse description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text
Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory
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. We also provide a list of resources useful for work within the RST framework. The present article is a comp…
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Looking Back and Moving Ahead
Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s. It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas in discourse analysis, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. In this article, we review some of the discussions about the theory itself, especially addressing issues of the reliability of analyses and psychological validity, tog…
Assertions from Discourse Structure
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 245-258
Assertions from Discourse Structure
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 245-258
Hispanic Older Adult's Perceptions of Personal, Contextual and Technology-Related Barriers for Using Assistive Technology Devices
The Home Improvements and Structural Alterations Benefits Program: Veterans With Disabilities and Home Accessibility
Inaccessible home environments can negatively affect the health-related quality of life of individuals with disabilities, increase the number of home accidents, diminish activities of daily living, and increase avoidable institutionalization. Appropriate home modification (HM) can change the home environment by making it more accessible. Accessible environments can be approached and used independently by individuals with diverse disabilities. Thi…
Rhetorical structure theory: A framework for the analysis of texts
Preview this article: Rhetorical structure theory, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/iprapip.1.1.03tho-1.gif
Linguistics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Rhetorical question (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (4 works)