In:Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 120] 2004
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
List of Contributors
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
I. Cohesion and Coherence15
The Cataphoric Indexicality of Titles
Cataphoric Complexity in Spoken English
The Role of Multiple Themes in Cohesion
Dialogical coherence? Patterns of cohesion in face-to-face conversation and e-mail mailing list messages
II. Metadiscourse and Discourse markers111
Gestural and Symbolic Uses of the Deictic “here” in Academic Lectures
The Discourse Function of Contrastive Connectors in Academic Abstracts
The Discourse Functions of I don’t know in English Conversation
They’re a Little Bit Different… Observations on Hedges in Academic Talk
Interaction in Written Economics Lectures: The Meta-discursive Role of Person Markers
III. Text and Information Structure217
Using Non-extraposition in Spoken and Written Texts: a Functional Perspective
IV. Metaphor and Text243
English Metaphors and Their Translation: the Importance of Context
