Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Coherence and genre
6. Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts 23
7. Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science news 53
8. The signalling of coherence relations
9. The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse 87
10. Resolving connective ambiguity 121
11. Coherence in multimodal discourse
12. Multimodal coherence research and its applications 145
13. Coherence in multimodal arts installations 179
14. Developmental and educational perspectives
15. “Why? Because I’m talking to you!” Parental input and cognitive complexity as determinants of children’s connective acquisition 209
16. (Non-)signalling of coherence structures in English learner writing 243
17. Signalling coherence in Austrian students‘ seminar papers: macro- and micro-structural cues 267
18. Index 293