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In:Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair
Edited by Mona Baker, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli
[Not in series 64] 1993
► pp. vii–viii

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Published online: 1 June 1993

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.64.toc

Table of contents

Forewordix

British Traditions in Text Analysis — From Firth to Sinclair1

1. Spoken and Written Discourse

Inexplicitness — A Feature of Naturalness in Conversation37

Topic as a Dynamic Element in Spoken Discourse55

Mohd Dahan Hazadiah

Interpreting Multi-act Moves in Spoken Discourse75

Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse95

Professional Conflict — Disagreement in Academic Discourse115

2. Corpus Studies: Theory and Practice

A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar — Principles, Methods and Examples137

Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? — The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies157

Corpus Evidence of Language Change — The Case of the Intensifier177

Alan Partington

Interpretative Nodes in Discourse — Actual and Actually193

Elena Tognini-Bonelli

Who Can Make Nice a Better Word Than Pretty? — Collocation, Translation, and Psycholinguistics213

Kirsten Malmkjær

Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies — Implications and Applications233

3. Text and Technology: Computational Tools

A Prototype Boundary Marker253

From Firth Principles — Computational Tools for the Study of Collocation271

Statistical Methods and Large Corpora — A New Tool for Describing Text Types293

Junsaku Nakamura

The Automatic Analysis of Dictionaries — Parsing Cobuild Explanations313

Geoff Barnbrook

Teaching, Text and Technology — A Hypermedia Environment333

Index353