William C. Mann

List of John Benjamins publications in which William C. Mann is involved.

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Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text

Edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson

Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 16] 1992. xiii, 409 pp.

Mann, William C. 2003 Models of intentions in language Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.), pp. 165–178 | Article

Mann, William C., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson 1992 Rhetorical Structure Theory and Text Analysis Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text, Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 39–78 | Article

Thompson, Sandra A. and William C. Mann 1987 Rhetorical structure theory: A framework for the analysis of texts IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 79–105 | Article

Thompson, Sandra A. and William C. Mann 1987 Antithesis: a study in clause combining and discourse structure Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 359–384 | Article