Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines
and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work. This …

We review the literature on automatic document formatting with an emphasis on recent work
in the field. One common way to frame document formatting is as a constrained optimization …

The first systematic, corpus-based and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and
analysis of multimodal documents. Drawing on academic research and the experience of …

Rhetorical Structure Theory has enjoyed continuous attention since its origins in the 1980s.
It has been applied, compared to other approaches, and also criticized in a number of areas …

Ever since the formulation of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson,
researchers have debated about what is the 'right'number of relations. One proposal is …

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is a theory of text organization that has led to areas of
application beyond discourse analysis and text generation, its original goals. In this article …

This book develops a new framework for describing the structure of multimodal documents:
how language, image, layout and other modes of communication work together to convey …

We argue that coherence relations (relations between propositions, such as Concession or
Purpose) are signalled more frequently and by more means than is generally believed. We …

The goal of this book is to examine some of the resources that speakers employ when
building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion …

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying
systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into …