Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Editors’ foreword xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis 21
8. Chapter 2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions 43
9. Chapter 3. “Hugh’s across all that” 73
10. Chapter 4. The textual functions of lexis 97
11. Chapter 5. Examining associations between lexis and textual position in hard news stories, or according to a study by… 117
12. Chapter 6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because … 145
13. Chapter 7. Probably most important of all 161
14. Chapter 8. Chatting in the academy 183
15. Chapter 9. General extenders in learner language 211
16. Chapter 10. Language description and language learning 235
17. Chapter 11. “What we contrarians already know” 257
18. Chapter 12. Does Britain need any more foreign doctors? Inter-analyst consistency and corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis 283
19. Publications by Susan Hunston 301
20. Author Index 305
21. Subject Index 309