Investigating genre distinctions through discourse distance and discourse network.
RST relation
dependency representations
discourse network
genre differences
linear distance
Journal
Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory
ISSN: 1613-7035
Titre abrégé: Corpus Linguist Linguist Theory
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9918471179406676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
12
02
2020
accepted:
05
02
2021
medline:
25
2
2021
entrez:
10
4
2023
pubmed:
25
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The notion of genre has been widely explored using quantitative methods from both lexical and syntactical perspectives. However, discourse structure has rarely been used to examine genre. Mostly concerned with the interrelation of discourse units, discourse structure can play a crucial role in genre analysis. Nevertheless, few quantitative studies have explored genre distinctions from a discourse structure perspective. Here, we use two English discourse corpora (RST-DT and GUM) to investigate discourse structure from a novel viewpoint. The RST-DT is divided into four small subcorpora distinguished according to genre, and another corpus (GUM) containing seven genres are used for cross-verification. An RST (rhetorical structure theory) tree is converted into dependency representations by taking information from RST annotations to calculate the
Identifiants
pubmed: 37034897
doi: 10.1515/cllt-2020-0064
pii: cllt-2020-0064
pmc: PMC10076151
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
599-624Informations de copyright
© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
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