A discourse relation is a description of how two segments of discourse

Discourse

Discourse generally refers to "written or spoken communication". The following are three more specific definitions:...

 are logic

Logic

In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...

ally connected to one another.

One method of modeling discourse involves a set of concepts that constitute "segmented discourse representation theory" (SDRT).

SDRT

Asher and Lascarides categorize the discourse relations formalized in SDRT into five classes.

Metatalk relations

• Consequence*(α,β)
• Explanation*(α,β)
• Explanation*_q(α,β)
• Result*(α,β)

External links

• Rhetorical Structure Theory — RST website, created by William C. Mann, maintained by Maite Taboada