Title :
Discourse Structures of English Exposition
Author :
Liu, Donghong ; Liao, Meizhen
Author_Institution :
English Dept., Huazhong Normal Univ., Wuhan, China
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;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1733-8
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2011.51
