CONTENTS
About the author = ⅶ
Preface = xi
Acknowledgements = xiii
1 On analysing and evaluating written text / Malcolm Coulthard = 1
2 Trust the text / John McH. Sinclair = 12
3 Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English / Michael Hoey = 26
4 Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English / Eugene Winter = 46
5 Predictive categories in expository text / Angele Tadros = 69
6 Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion / Gill Francis = 83
7 The text and its message / Tim Johns = 102
8 The analysis of fixed expressions in text / Rosamund Moon = 117
9 The construction of knowledge and value-in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species / M. A. K. Halliday = 136
10 Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse / Catheriine Emmott = 157
11 Inferences in discourse comprehension / Martha Shiro = 167
12 Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics / Greg Myers = 179
13 Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse / Susan Hunston = 191
14 Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP / Tony Dudley-Evans = 219
15 On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals / Peter H. Fries = 229
16 Negatives in written text / Adriana Pagano = 250
17 It, this and that / Michael McCarthy = 266
18 The structure of newspaper editorials / Adriana Bol i ´ var = 276
19 On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard = 295
References = 309
