Contents // Acknowledgements vii // 1 Introduction 1 // PART I // Social analysis, discourse analysis, text analysis 19 // 2 Texts, social events and social practices 21 // 3 Intertextuality and assumptions 39 // PART II // Genres and action 63 // 4 Genres and generic structure 65 // 5 Meaning relations between sentences and clauses 87 // 6 Clauses: types of exchange, speech functions and // grammatical mood 105 // PART III // Discourses and representations 121 // 7 Discourses 12 3 // 8 Representations of social events 1 34 // vi Contents // PART IV // Styles and identities // 9 Styles // 10 Modality and evaluation // Conclusion // Glossaries Appendix of texts References Index // 157 // 159 // 164 // 191 // 212 // 229 // 256 // 264