Module 08
Discourse & Pragmatics
How texts cohere beyond the sentence level — and what AI needs to truly understand discourse structure.
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Structure
2 Lessons
Investment
1.3h
Level
Intermediate
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8.1 — Coherence & Discourse
How texts achieve coherence — and why LLMs sometimes produce fluent but ultimately incoherent extended text.
Learning Objectives
1
Define discourse coherence and its major components: reference chains, connectives, and topic continuity
2
Analyze Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and its practical applications in AI text generation
3
Evaluate LLM coherence failures systematically using formal discourse structure analysis