<blockquote type="cite" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-right: 0px; font-family: sans-serif;">Hello fellow researchers,<div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502519756021" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502519757369" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Are there researchers here, who have combined RST with other linguistic theories? </div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502519825464" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502519827782" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Please, I need your works or works you know to guide me. I am carrying out a research on political discourse in West Africa and America, but I intend combining RST with Systemic Functional Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis.</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520080386" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520081217" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I intend to explore RST as a functional paradigm and its capacity to lay out pre-realised discourse meaning in the bid to connect it with transitivity (a construct in SFT), as its ideational realisation, and examine critically the ideologies that underpin the communicative intentions of the discourse - which RST will have aided to identify.</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520423976" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520427768" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">It's a PhD research work and I need all I can lay my hand on to write a good thesis and further project the internal complementary value of RST with other linguistic theories.</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520525279" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520527145" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I look forward to your responses.</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520549188" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520550780" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sincerely,</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520559239" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br clear="none" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520562291" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Emmanuel</div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520564927" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2583469402moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:emmachi131@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:emmachi131@yahoo.com" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">emmachi131@yahoo.com</a></div><div id="yiv2583469402yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502520579318" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv2583469402moz-txt-link-abbreviated" ymailto="mailto:chuksnaguh@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chuksnaguh@gmail.com" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1502965531843">chuksnaguh@gmail.com</a></div></blockquote><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div>