Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Mapping genres using systemic functional linguistics 1
4. Chapter 2. Exploring the structure and meaning of the family of procedural texts in Japanese 29
5. Chapter 3. The directive genre in the Japanese workplace 57
6. Chapter 4. The genre of exposition 93
7. Chapter 5. An analysis of Japanese news stories 119
8. Chapter 6. Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers 137
9. Chapter 7. Kundoku-bun 169
10. Chapter 8. Once upon a time 191
11. Chapter 9. Nihonjinron and the context of culture 213
12. Contributors 241
13. Index 243