Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of tables xi
4. List of figures ix
5. Glossary of commonly used abbreviations xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. Investigating discourse topics 5
8. Chapter 2. Topic boundaries 29
9. Chapter 3. Identifying topics 49
10. Chapter 4. Topic development 67
11. Chapter 5. Text linguistic analyses of discourse topics 83
12. Chapter 6. Comparing the analyses of discourse topics 149
13. Chapter 7. Applying discourse topic analysis 193
14. Chapter 8. Implications of discourse topics 241
15. References 261
16. Appendix A. Transcription conventions 281
17. Appendix B. Text 1: Classroom discourse 283
18. Appendix C. Text 2: An inconvenient truth 285
19. Appendix D. Text 3: Uses of topics 295
20. Appendix E. Text 4: Wikitalk 299
21. Appendix F. Text 5: Satirical sermon 303
22. Appendix G. Text 6: Anecdote 307
23. Name index 309
24. Subject index 313