CHAPTER 1 ACADEMIC DISCOURSE -- Irena Hůlková -- The distribution of however and some other conjuncts -- in English academic prose -- Martina Malášková -- Hedges in academic writing: Focus on research article introductions Petra Zmrzlá -- Direct cohesive chains in scientific articles -- CHAPTER 2 INTERNET DISCOURSE -- Alena Kačmárová -- Word associations: The case of some amplifiers -- CHAPTER 3 LEARNER DISCOURSE -- Irena Headlandová Kalischová -- Tendencies in intonation centre placement in utterances of Czech users of English and the possible effect on discourse coherence -- Jana Kořínková -- Reference and conjunction in texts written by Czech -- and native speakers of English -- CHAPTER 4 LITERARY DISCOURSE -- Jolana Kaštovská -- Syntactic parallelism as a cohesive device in British prose -- Jarmila Petrliková -- Looking for features of coherence within a complex noun phrase in literary discourse -- Vladislav Smolka -- Word-order as a cohesive device -- CHAPTER 5 MEDIA DISCOURSE -- Renata Jancaříková -- Newspaper reporting: Cohesive devices as means contributing to the effectiveness of news -- Zuzana Urbanová -- Newspaper reports: Lexis, discourse pattern and coherence -- CHAPTER 6 MEDICAL DISCOURSE -- Miroslav Černý -- Three-part structures of medical interviews