The Rhetorical Structure Theory as the Instrument for Analyzing Poetic Texts

Timofeeva, Mariya K.

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“…The process of adapting RST for the specificity of poetic texts includes two steps: (1) defining the criteria for dividing an analyzed text into the sequence of elementary segments, (2) elaborating the appropriate set of rhetorical relations and the criteria for their textual identification. Since both lines were in focus of consideration in [24], it would be superfluous to discuss them here again. It is sufficient to characterize the main results of the adaptation.…”

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“…Besides, these criteria are language-specific because textual markers of relations use the lexical, syntactical, pragmatical, and prosodical means of a language. The elaborated criteria for analyzing poetic texts [24] is substantially based on the parallels between RST schemas and formulae of propositional logic proposed in [31]. These formulae use the notion of relational proposition introduced by the authors of RST [32].…”

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“…The research initiated in [23] is the first attempt to apply RST to Russian classic poetry; ref. [24] presents preliminary results and the strategy of adapting RST to poetic material. In the current paper, we discuss the results of applying this adapted version of RST to Russian poetic texts.…”

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Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Russian Classic Poetry

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2021

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The paper considers the pragmatic textual level and focuses on peculiarities of reasoning realized in the lyric verses written by the representatives of Russian classic poetry. The investigated material of poetic texts includes the verses written by A.K. Tolstoy, K.K. Sluchevsky, and I.F. Annensky. The purposes of the study involve adapting the rhetorical structure theory (RST) to poetic texts, annotating these texts, searching for regularities of poetic reasoning specific to the considered authors. Applying RST to poetic texts was a novel task; the lack of experience made it necessary to adapt the method, that is, to elaborate the adequate set of rhetorical relations and to specify two sets of criteria: segmenting a text and identifying the relations. The resulting set of relations consists of 34 items. After annotating the texts in terms of the adopted RST, several lines of comparison were the objects of investigation. They include collating the frequency spectrums of relations and the semantical groups of relations for the three authors, as well as comparing two periods of creativity for A.K. Tolstoy and K.K. Sluchevsky. The results of the comparative investigation revealed certain regularities both in the distribution of isolated relations and the distribution of semantically grouped relations.

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