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  <Title>Identifying the Linguistic Correlates of Rhetorical Relations</Title>
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6. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> RASTA posits plausible rhetorical relations between clauses by identifying the linguistic correlates of rhetorical relations. The evidence that RASTA examines goes beyond cue phrases, including such cues as clausal status, anaphora, deixis and referential continuity.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The form of a text represents the sum of a number of the decisions made by a writer. These decisions include the rhetorical structuring of the text, motivating the choice of linguistic devices such as specific grammatical constructions and tense and aspect sequencing. By examining the linguistic form of a text, we are able to make plausible inferences about rhetorical structure.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Even subtle entailments (criterion 6, Figure 3, section 5) can be identified by an examination of linguistic form alone.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> RASTA allows for a many-to-many mapping between elements of linguistic form and specific rhetorical relations. Specific relations are identified by the convergence of multiple pieces of evidence. Future research in this vein will seek to mine the wealth of information present in a text for more cues to rhetorical structure.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> 1. During the 1920s, attempts were made to achieve a stable peace.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> 2.The first was the establishment (1920) of the League of Nations as a forum in which nations could settle their disputes.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> 3.The league's powers were limited to persuasion and various levels of moral and economic sanctions that the members were free to carry out as they saw fit.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="7"> 4.At the Washington Conference of 192122, the principal naval powers agreed to limit their navies according to a fixed ratio.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="8"> 5.The Locamo Conference (1925) produced a treaty guarantee of the German-French boundary and an arbitration agreement between Germany and Poland.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="9"> 6. In the Paris Peace Pact (1928), 63 countries, including all the great powers except the USSR, renounced war as an instrument of national policy 7. and pledged to resolve all disputes among them &amp;quot;by pacific means.&amp;quot;</Paragraph>
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