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In:Functional Grammar and Verbal Interaction
Edited by Mike Hannay and A. Machtelt Bolkestein
[Studies in Language Companion Series 44] 1998
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 July 1998

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Table of contents

Introductionvii

Part 1 Discourse and grammar

The multilayered structure of the utterance: about illocution, modality and discourse moves1

Benveniste's récit and discours as Discourse operators in Functional Grammar25

Ahmed Moutaouakil

Textual cohesion and the notion of perception43

Structure and coherence in business conversations59

Ans A.G. Steuten

An outline of a pragmatic functional grammar77

Marinus van den Berg

Part 2 The interpersonal component

Illocution and grammar: a double level approach107

Concession in Spanish129

Epistemic possibility in the layered structure of the utterance149

Information, Situation Semantics and Functional Grammar167

John H. Connolly

Part 3 Information structure

What to do with Topic and Focus? Evaluating pragmatic information193

A. Machtelt Bolkestein

Parallel Focus in English and Spanish: evidence from conversation215

Elena Martínez Caro

Polish main clause constituent order and FG pragmatic functions243

Anna Siewierska

The basis of syntax in the holophrase267

J. Lachlan Mackenzie

Subject index297

Index of names303

List of contributors307