DocumentCode
2910176
Title
Discourse Structures of English Exposition
Author
Liu, Donghong ; Liao, Meizhen
Author_Institution
English Dept., Huazhong Normal Univ., Wuhan, China
fYear
2011
fDate
15-17 Nov. 2011
Firstpage
97
Lastpage
100
Abstract
Van Kuppevelt´s approach to discourse structure emphasizes that topicality is the general organizing principle. His discourse structure consisting of MAIN STRUCTURE and SIDE STRUCTURE has been applied to conversations and discourse segmentations rather than expository essays. In this paper two discourse structures of expository essays are proposed in Van Kuppevelt´s framework. The proposed structure can test the soundness of the ways of developing expository essays.
Keywords
natural language processing; English exposition; discourse segmentations; discourse structures; expository essays; Coherence; Educational institutions; Europe; Internet; Organizing; Pragmatics; Writing; discourse structure; exposition; topicality;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Penang
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1733-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IALP.2011.51
Filename
6121479
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