London & New York: Routledge, 2004. — 320 p.This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range from pure science through social science, academic journals, weekly magazines and newspapers, to literary narratives. This collection forms the basis for an course on written text analysis that should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.Contents
About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
On analysing and evaluating written text
Trust the text
Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English
Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English
Predictive categories in expository text
Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion
The text and its message
The analysis of fixed expressions in text
The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species
Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse
Inferences in discourse comprehension
Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics
Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse
Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP
On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals
Negatives in written text
It, this and that
The structure of newspaper editorials
On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives
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