The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse coherence -- 1. Coherence relations -- 2. Signalling coherence relations -- 3. Coherence relations, hierarchical structure, and genre -- 4. Multimodal discourse -- 5. The contributions to this volume -- References -- Part I. Coherence and genre -- Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Explicit and implicit coherence relations -- 1.2 Genre -- 2. Corpus -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Coherence relations -- 3.2 Move analysis -- 3.3 Analysis of discourse connectives -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Explicit and implicit relations -- 4.1.1 Explicit and implicit relations within and between moves -- 4.1.2 Explicit and implicit relations at different levels in the discourse structure -- 4.1.3 Explicit and implicit instances of expansion, semantic, and pragmatic relations -- 4.2 Stratified analyses of the three relation types -- 4.2.1 Expansion, semantic and pragmatic relations within and between moves -- 4.2.2 Expansion, semantic and pragmatic relations at different levels in the discourse structure -- 4.3 Analysis of individual RST relations -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science news -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Generic structure and coherence relations -- 1.2 Science news and its generic structure -- 1.3 Contrastive coherence relations -- 1.4 Evaluation -- 2. Corpus and methods -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Discovery Contrast -- 3.2 Background Contrast -- 3.3 Result Contrast -- 3.4 Limitation Contrast -- 3.5 Conclusive Contrast -- 3.6 Contrasts involving other meanings -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Semantic perspective -- 4.2 Contextual perspective -- 4.3 Textual perspective -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Part II. The signalling of coherence relations -- The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse relations and thematic progression -- 2.1 Discourse relations -- 2.2 Thematic progression and multiple themes -- 3. Adjacency and granularity -- 3.1 Granularity -- 3.2 Adjacency -- 4. Contrastive analysis of English and German argumentative discourse -- 4.1 The British editorials -- 4.2 The German editorials -- 4.3 Comparison between German and English editorials -- 5. Experimental discourse comprehension -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Appendix -- Resolving connective ambiguity: A prerequisite for discourse parsing -- 1. Introduction: Coherence relations and discourse parsing -- 1.1 Theories of discourse structure -- 1.2 Discourse parsing and local coherence analysis -- 2. Connectives and cue phrases -- 3. Connective ambiguity in English -- 3.1 The size of the problem -- 3.2 Disambiguation methods -- 4. Connective ambiguity in German -- 4.1 The size of the problem -- 4.2 Disambiguation methods -- 5. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Part III. Coherence in multimodal discourse -- Multimodal coherence research and its applications -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The emergence of the 'text'-'image' issue within linguistics -- 3. An overview of approaches to text-image relations -- 3.1 Abstraction and stratification -- 3.2 The selected approaches -- 3.2.1 Multimodal relations modelled on accounts of cohesion -- 3.2.2 Multimodal relations modelled on grammar -- 3.2.3 Multimodal relations modelled on discourse semantics -- 3.2.4 Multimodal relations modelled on accounts of rhetoric -- 3.2.5 Multimodal relations based on speech acts, interaction and action -- 4. General considerations and challenges: The need for an integrative view -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements.

References -- Coherence in multimodal art installations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Coherence and multimodality -- 3. Text or the unified whole -- 4. Framework of analysis -- 4.1 Layer 1: Delimitation or merging of artwork and surroundings -- 4.2 Layer 2: Relation among communicative events or scenes in the artwork -- 4.3 Layer 3: Inter-modal relations among different modes of communication -- 4.4 Layer 4: Coherence structures within each mode -- 4.5 Layer 5: Coherence by inference -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part IV. Developmental and educational perspectives -- "Why? Because I'm talking to you!" Parental input and cognitive complexity as determinants of children's connective acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pragmatics and/or cognition -- 3. Study 1: The influence of parental input on connective acquisition -- 3.1 Aim and methodology -- 3.2 Results -- 4. Study 2: Interaction between parental input and children's causal connective production -- 4.1 Aim and methodology -- 4.2 Results -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5. Study 3: Parental why-questions as scaffolds for connective acquisition -- 5.1 Aim and methodology -- 5.2 Results -- 5.3 Conclusion -- 6. Study 4: The acquisition of different types of causality -- 6.1 Aim and methodology -- 6.2 Results -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7. Discussion -- 8. General conclusion -- References -- (Non-)signalling of coherence structures in english learner writing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studies of the use of cohesive devices in learner writing -- 3. Signalling of coherence relations -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Data -- 4.2 Global coherence ratings -- 4.3 Coherence structure -- 4.4 The linguistic surface level -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Number of signalled relations -- 5.2 Types of signals used -- 5.3 Function of connectives in the discourse structure -- 5.4 Contrast relations -- 6. Conclusions.

References -- Signalling coherence in Austrian students' seminar papers: Macro- and micro-structural cues -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Discourse coherence -- 1.2 Tables of contents as paratexts -- 2. Data -- 3. Methodological preliminaries - categories of analysis -- 3.1 Methodological preliminaries -- 3.2 Categories of analysis -- 3.2.1 Analysis of tables of content -- 3.2.2 Textual analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Relation types in ToCs and on the macro-textual level -- 4.2 Terminal units and hierarchical levels in ToCs and textual macro-structures -- 4.3 Relation cues in ToCs -- 4.4 Coherence structures in ToCs and at the textual macro-levels -- 4.5 Relation cues in ToCs and at the textual micro-levels -- 5. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Index.