Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. British Traditions in Text Analysis — From Firth to Sinclair 1
5. 1. Spoken and Written Discourse
6. Inexplicitness — A Feature of Naturalness in Conversation 37
7. Topic as a Dynamic Element in Spoken Discourse 55
8. Interpreting Multi-act Moves in Spoken Discourse 75
9. Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse 95
10. Professional Conflict — Disagreement in Academic Discourse 115
11. 2. Corpus Studies: Theory and Practice
12. A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar — Principles, Methods and Examples 137
13. Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? — The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies 157
14. Corpus Evidence of Language Change — The Case of the Intensifier 177
15. Interpretative Nodes in Discourse — Actual and Actually 193
16. Who Can Make Nice a Better Word Than Pretty ? — Collocation, Translation, and Psycholinguistics 213
17. Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies — Implications and Applications 233
18. 3. Text and Technology: Computational Tools
19. A Prototype Boundary Marker 253
20. From Firth Principles — Computational Tools for the Study of Collocation 271
21. Statistical Methods and Large Corpora — A New Tool for Describing Text Types 293
22. The Automatic Analysis of Dictionaries — Parsing Cobuild Explanations 313
23. Teaching, Text and Technology — A Hypermedia Environment 333
24. Index 353