{"title":"Discourse Structures of English Exposition","authors":"Donghong Liu, Meizhen Liao","doi":"10.1109/IALP.2011.51","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":297167,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IALP.2011.51","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.