Image of a hub, © Paul Watson, CC  BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Linguistic Teaching resources Hub
Image © Paul Watson, Licence CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

An Introduction to Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)

* William Mann *

Keywords: RST, Rhetorical Structure Theory

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~billmann/rst-previewatusc/rintro99.htm

This Webpage gives an overview of Rhetorical Structure Theory. It starts with a brief history, then lists the key concepts and relations defined in RST and shows some examples.

Further references are given.

A newer version of this introduction (with translations into other languages including Spanish and French) available here

Feedback

Sorry, there is no feedback available. Be the first one to provide feedback!

Resource details

Institution: University of Southern California
Year of publication: 2000
Language: english
Type: Quickstart
Audience: linguists, translators
Level: basic
Prerequisites:

None

Media: text/html
Objective:

Overview of RST

Licence:
Access: open
Creation date: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 13:47:07
Last modified: Wednesday, 24 April 2024 21:15:05
BibTeX type: @misc
BibTeX entry:
@misc(TeLeMaCo:230,
author = "Mann, William",
title = "{A}n {I}ntroduction to {R}hetorical {S}tructure {T}heory ({R}{S}{T})",
year = "2000",
url = "http://www-bcf.usc.edu/\~{}billmann/rst-previewatusc/rintro99.htm"
)
  
  
  

Helpdesk Button