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In:Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English
Edited by Antonia Sánchez-Macarro and Ronald Carter
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 158] 1998
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Published online: 15 July 1998

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Table of contents

Forewordvii

Introduction

Meaning as work: Individuals, society and the production of representational resources3

I Written Genres

Resonance in text29

Conditional expressions: Meanings and realizations in two genres47

Pragmatic, stylistic and grammatical limitations on choice: A study of cause-effect signalling in English65

Michael P. Jordan

Functional variations in NG premodifiers in written English87

Vicente López-Folgado

Information progression strategies in administrative forms: A cross-linguistic study99

Interpersonal choices in academic work117

The consequences of choice: Discursive positioning in an art institution137

Louise J. Ravelli

Lexical and grammatical choices in innovative language use in computer science155

Scientific discourse as interaction: Scientific articles vs. popularizations173

Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich

Antonia Sánchez-Macarro

Rhetorical relations and subordination in L2 writing191

Katja Pelsmaekers

Ronald Geluykens

II Spoken Genres

Quality choice and quality control217

Gordon H. Tucker

Modality in the therapeutic dialogue239

Adrienne Chambon

The conversational dynamics of interactional dispute in conflictive calls for emergency assistance: A single case study265

Luis Pérez-González

Friends or strangers: Only their phases show for sure291

Lars Porsena and my bonk manager: A systemic-functional study in the semogenesis of the language of swearing301

Intonation choices in the English of non-native speakers: An exploratory study317

Index of subjects337

Index of names343