TABLE OF CONTENTS // List of figures and tables...V // Acknowledgements...VI // 1 Introduction...1 // 1.1 Discourse and communication...3 // 1.2 Aims and outline of the book...7 // 2 Theoretical preliminaries and research methodology...9 // 2.1 Defining discourse coherence...9 // 2.2 State of the art...20 // 2.2.1 Coherence on the ideational plane of discourse...20 // 2.2.2 Coherence on the interpersonal plane of discourse...26 // 2.2.3 Coherence on the textual plane of discourse...35 // 2.2.4 Disturbed coherence...45 // 2.3 Analytical framework...47 // 2.3.1 Analysing coherence...48 // 2.3.2 Genre analysis...58 // 2.3.3 Applying the analytical framework...63 // 3 The genre of opening addresses...65 // 3.1 Political discourse...65 // 3.2 The genre of opening addresses in the UNESCO context...70 // 3.3 Generic structure and rhetorical moves of opening addresses...78 // 3.4 Material under investigation...81 // 4 Aspects of coherence in opening addresses...85 // 4.1 Coherence and persuasion: understanding and believing...85 // 4.2 Management of discourse topic and rhetorical structure...87 // 4.2.1 Introducing the discourse topic // and establishing interpersonal relations...87 // 4.2.2 Argumentative structure...98 // 4.2.3 Evaluation and closure...105 // 4.3 Strategic uses of reference...107 // 4.3.1 Pronominal reference: referential domains // and scale of distancing...109 // 4.3.2 Reference, persuasion and the identity ofthe speaker...120 // III // 4.4 Modality markers and point
of view...137 // 4.4.1 Deontic modality: the �right’ vs. �wrong’ opposition...138 // 4 .4.2 Epistemic modality: (un)certainty and truth commitment.146 // 5 Conclusions...153 // 6 References...159 // 7 Appendix...175 // 8 Shrnuti...193 // 9 Summary...195 // 10 Index...197 // IV