Monologue as a Turn in Dialogue: Towards an Integration of Exchange Structure and Rhetorical Structure Theory

This paper identifies a major problem in planning discourse, and then points to a solution. The problem is that of the relationship between models for monologue and dialogue. Rhetorical structure theory (RST) is selected as the current best prospect for modelling monologue. A model for exchange structure is then outlined — the systemic flowchart model — and we conclude by showing how the two can be related to each other in an integrated overall model.

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