Lee, Hae-Yun & Jun, Su-Eun. 2007. A comparative analysis on structures of text types. Textlinguistics 23. In this paper we tried to identify the text structures inherent to text types, and to examine the differences between structures of text types. S...
Lee, Hae-Yun & Jun, Su-Eun. 2007. A comparative analysis on structures of text types. Textlinguistics 23. In this paper we tried to identify the text structures inherent to text types, and to examine the differences between structures of text types. Some previous theories about text structures such as van Dijk(1980) and Brinker(1992) lack in methodologies, and have no application to the practical analysis. Our analyses of text structures are based on Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann & Thompson 1987), which has been used within the domain of computational linguistics. Specifically we dealt with two types of texts, i.e. a narrative text type and an argumentative text type. In this analysis, we chose the typical texts of each type, and presented structures with rhetorical relations. As a result, we could show that the text structures of two types are similar at the surface formatting, but are different at the semantic linking between text units.