Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: One prominent goal of discourse analysis is to uncover the conceptual structures denoted by a discourse. For many studies of discourse structure (Polanyi 1988, Mann & Thompson 1988, Sanders & Van Wijk 1996), analytical practice includes a characterization of the coherence structure of discourse, that is, the way in which the basic discourse units are connected to each other. The notion coherence structure refers to connectedness of discourse that sets it apart from random sets of sentences. If discourse analysis is employed as a method for investigating cognitive processes in
Authors: Arie Verhagen, Joost Schilperoord
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W167960899