Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part 1 Discourse and grammar
5. The multilayered structure of the utterance 1
6. Benveniste's récit and discours as Discourse operators in Functional Grammar 25
7. Textual cohesion and the notion of perception 43
8. Structure and coherence in business conversations 59
9. An outline of a pragmatic functional grammar 77
10. Part 2 The interpersonal component
11. Illocution and grammar 107
12. Concession in Spanish 129
13. Epistemic possibility in the layered structure of the utterance 149
14. Information, Situation Semantics and Functional Grammar 167
15. Part 3 Information structure
16. What to do with Topic and Focus? 193
17. Parallel Focus in English and Spanish 215
18. Polish main clause constituent order and FG pragmatic functions 243
19. The basis of syntax in the holophrase 267
20. Subject index 297
21. Index of names 303
22. List of contributors 307