Framework for the relational analysis of texts : theory and practice.

This workshop is useful for academic researchers and postgraduate students who wish to explore relational approaches to the examination of the organisation of academic texts. <br />The first part of the workshop introduces the theory and premises of the framework for the rhetorical analysis of the structure of texts (FARS). FARS provides a functional account of the structure of text in terms of the strategies employed by writers to achieve their communicative purposes. Its coherence relations obtain from the level of text as a whole to the clausal level. The discourse parts at all levels except the bottom level constitute relational schemata. FARS relational taxonomy includes the following relational clusters: Elaboration, List, Causal, Adversative, Facilitation, Assessing and Digression. The second part of the workshopl provides opportunity to practice relational analyses of selected texts within this framework.<br />