@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/langct.00009.tab, author = "Taboada, Maite", title = "The space of coherence relations and their signalling in discourse", journal= "Language, Context and Text", year = "2019", volume = "1", number = "2", pages = "205-233", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/langct.00009.tab", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/langct.00009.tab", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "2589-7233", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "conjunction", keywords = "discourse markers", keywords = "cohesive harmony", keywords = "cohesion", keywords = "discourse signalling", keywords = "discourse relations", keywords = "Rhetorical Structure Theory", keywords = "coherence relations", keywords = "rhetorical relations", keywords = "discourse organization", abstract = "Abstract

I present an overview of the concept of coherence in discourse and explore how one of the essential elements to that coherence, relational coherence, has been studied and partitioned in different discourse traditions. I then introduce one of the theories that deals with discourse coherence, Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Through the description of RST, I investigate fundamental concepts in the study of coherence relations such as the classification of relations and their signalling in discourse.", }