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The present article contributes to the discussion of methods of corpus studies in the field of text and discourse analysis. Starting with a brief overview of bottom-up and top-down methods of corpus analysis, the article focuses on a critical examination of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), a framework for describing natural text that has been widely used for the annotation of texts, especially in the field of computational linguistics. This critical assessment, which is based on an action-theoretic theory of text organization, is, at the same time, used as a means of discussing some quality criteria for textual analysis. After a brief introduction to basic tenets of RST, the article discusses various features of this framework that appear problematic from a theoretical point of view and that tend to cause difficulties for practical analysis. The problems connected to these features include problems of granularity associated with the “classic” set of “rhetorical relations” as well as problems connected to the adjacency and nuclearity conditions. Furthermore it is shown that RST lacks adequate instruments for the description of the topic structure of texts and aspects of linearity and the dynamics of texts, e.g. the discontinuity of functional and thematic elements. The final section of the paper summarizes the results of this critical analysis, briefly reflecting on conceptions of multi-level annotation and suggesting some further steps in the corpus-based analysis of textual organization.

Texttheorie und textlinguistische Annotation von Korpora: Bemerkungen zur Rhetorical Structure Theory