A problem with an analysis in terms of RST

[Gisela Redeker]

On 21 Oct 99, at 11:16, Holger Schauer wrote:
> >>>>"GR" == Gisela Redeker schrieb am Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:32:43 +0200:
>  GR> If that is true, we should not expect a strong rhetorical
>  GR> relation between these two paragraphs. As I have argued elsewhere
>  GR> (Redeker 1996/forthcoming), RST lacks special 'machinery' to
>  GR> handle genre-specific structures (where sequential relations
>  GR> between text segments are defined in terms of the structural
>  GR> elements expected, and not in terms of content or argumentation),
>
> I would be very interested in these "elsewheres" :-)

Sorry for the long silence -- was bogged down for a while with
too many urgencies & 'emergencies'.

The two references are actually pretty much the same paper.
I have put a postscript file with the latest version on the web at:
	http://www.let.rug.nl/~redeker/publ.html

I am still planning to follow up on the analysis of the newspaper
commentary we were discussing. Having seen the whole text
(Holger had only given us a part of it), I'm pretty sure I can come up
with an RST-analysis and it will almost certainly differ from
Holger's own. I'll discuss this off-list with Holger (if and when I find
time in early December) unless there's interest in having this rather
technical discussion on the list.

Gisela


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