Preface
1-4 Types of Text
1 Means of Production: Number of Speakers.
2 Type of Content: Text Genres
3 Manner of Production: Style and Register
4 Medium of Production: Oral Versus Written
5-15 Common Characteristics in Discourses
5 Coherence
6 Cohesion
7 Thematic Groupings and Thematic Discontinuities
8 Text Charting
9 Mental Representations Revisited
10 Activation Status, Definiteness, and Referential Status
11 Discourse-Pragmatic Structuring of Sentences
12 Foreground and Background Information
13 Signaling Relations Between Propositions
14 The Reporting of Conversation
15 Conventionalized Aspects of Text Organization
16-18 Participant Reference
16 Basic Notions of Reference
17 Strategies of Reference
18 A Methodology for Analyzing Reference Patterns
Appendices
Appendix A: “Winds of Terror”
Appendix B: “The Train Ride”
Appendix C: Extract from “The Healer and His Wife”
References
Index
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