Discourse strategies and discourse types

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Part I
4. Discourse strategies and discourse types 3
5. Text production and dynamic text semantics 23
6. Towards probabilistic interpretations 39
7. A functional model of the system of sentence structures 63
8. Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory 81
9. A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar 107
10. The concept of rank in systemic linguistics 121
11. Part II
12. Information flow in English conversation: A new approach to the Given – New distinction 141
13. Minimal exchanges in English discourse 169
14. The interpenetration of language as code and language as behavior: A description of evaluative statements 193
15. The static and dynamic choices of responding: Toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered 213
16. First- and second-order registers in education 235
17. Part III
18. Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: A critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing 259
19. Grammar, technocracy, and the noun: Technocratic values and cognitive linguistics 281
20. Nominalization in science and humanities: Distilling knowledge and scaffolding text 307
21. From clinical report to clinical story: Two ways of writing about a medical case 339
22. Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts 369
23. Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony 385
24. Cohesion coherence: Scientific texts 415
25. The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level 431
26. Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles 457
27. 500-502 500