Contents // About the authors vii // Preface xi // Acknowledgements xiii // 1 On analysing and evaluating written text 1 // Malcolm Coulthard // 2 Trust the text 12 // John McH. Sinclair // 3 Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common // discourse pattern in written and spoken English 26 // Michael Hoey // 4 Clause relations as information structure: two basic text // structures in English 46 // Eugene Winter // 5 Predictive categories in expository text 69 // Angele Tadros // 6 Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical // cohesion 83 // Gill Francis // 7 The text and its message 102 // Tim Johns // 8 The analysis of fixed expressions in text 117 // Rosamund Moon // 9 The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin’s // The Origin of Species 136 // M. A. K. Holliday // 10 Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the // interpretation of narrative discourse 157 // Catherine Emmott // vi Contents // 11 Inferences in discourse comprehension 167 // Martha Shiro // 12 Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular // genetics 179 // Greg Myers // 13 Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic // discourse 191 // Susan Hunston // 14 Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP 219 // Tony Dudley-Evans // 15 On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals 229 // Peter H. Fries // 16 Negatives in written text 250 // Adriana Pagano // 17 It, this