1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse coherence (by Redeker, Gisela); 3. Coherence and genre; 4. Explicit and implicit coherence relations in Dutch texts (by Vliet, Nynke van der); 5. Contrastive relations, evaluation, and generic structure in science news (by Haupt, Jaromir); 6. The signalling of coherence relations; 7. The coding of discourse relations in English and German argumentative discourse (by Speyer, Augustin); 8. Resolving connective ambiguity: a prerequisite for discourse parsing (by Stede, Manfred); 9. Coherence in multimodal discourse; 10. Multimodal coherence research and its applications (by Bateman, John A.); 11. Coherence in multimodal arts installations (by Huemer, Birgit); 12. Developmental and educational perspectives; 13. "Why? Because I'm talking to you!" Parental input and cognitive complexity as determinants of children's connective acquisition (by Veen, Rosie van); 14. (Non-)signalling of coherence structures in English learner writing (by Schiftner, Barbara); 15. Signalling coherence in Austrian students' seminar papers: macro- and micro-structural cues (by Gruber, Helmut); 16. Index

Among the many strengths of the volume are the specific attention devoted to multimodality, traditionally disregarded in linguistic works on coherence, the significant effort in integrating Rhetorical Structure Theory with theories and tools drawn from other approaches, as well as the contributors’ modelling of analytical frames, which lend themselves to be applied to further work. [...] I believe the volume constitutes an extremely useful and rich contribution on discourse coherence.