Table Of Contents:
Preface to the Series iii(5)
The Format of the Text and the Sources of Examples viii(1)
Acknowledgements ix(2)
Foreword xi

I Getting Started 1(20)

I. A. Science at the crossroads 1(1)

I. B. Demonstrating our agenda: Consumerism versus ecologism 2(8)

I. C. Text as an event 10(8)

Commentaries to Ch. I 18(3)

II Toward a Science of Text and Discourse 21(57)

II. A. Paradigms for the study of language 21(1)

II. B. Textuality in grammar, rhetoric, and logic 21(5)

II. C. Textuality in philology 26(2)

II. D. Textuality in modern linguistics 28(24)

II.E. Moving toward text and discourse 52(8)

II.F. A brief history of 'text linguistics' 60(2)

II.G. Structuralism and post-structuralism 62(5)

II.H. Back to the future 67(1)

Commentaries to Ch. II 68(10)

III Designing Models of Cognition and Communication in Society 78(102)

III.A. Moving from 'classical' to 'post-classical' 78(18)

III.B. Prospects for evolution in the design of models and domains 96(6)

III.C. Evolution into code 102(16)

III.D. Evolution in language and discourse 118(12)

III.E. Communication among the sciences 130(14)

III.F. Criteria for designing models 144(8)

III.G. Modeling linearity 152(4)

III.H. Modeling resource constraints 156(3)

III.I. An interactive model for text and discourse processing 159(13)

Commentaries to Ch. III 172(8)

IV Functionality and Textuality 180(114)

IV.A. Form, meaning, function, and textuality 180(6)

IV.B. Toward a functional, cognitive, and social lexicogrammar 186(72)

IV.B.1 Designing a scheme of Processes and Aspects 196(11)

IV.B.2 Enriching the scheme 207(31)

IV.B.3 From Clause to Phrase 238(15)

IV.B.4 The design of the lexicogrammar reconsidered 253(3)

IV.B.5 The lexicogrammar in the economy of discourse 256(2)

IV.C. The economy of maintaining and compacting 258(9)

IV.D. The economy of joining 267(3)

IV.E. The prosodic level: Intonation and punctuation 270(13)

IV.F. The 'discourse level' 283(5)

Commentaries to Ch. V 288(6)

V Intermediary Control Systems between Virtual and Actual 294(55)

V.A. Style and stylistics 296(15)

V.B. Text types and discourse domains 311(14)

V.C. Discourse for special purposes: 'LSP' and terminology 325(21)

Commentaries to Ch. V 346(3)

VI Interlingual Discourse in Theory and Practice 349(40)

VI.A. Indirect evidence: Comparing and contrasting languages 350(6)

VI.B. Direct evidence: Interference, borrowing, and code-switching 356(8)

VI.C. Pidgins and creoles 364(6)

VI.D. Translation 370(16)

Commentaries to Ch. VI 386(3)

VII Discourse in Socialization and Education 389(128)

VII.A. Modeling socialization and education 389(7)

VII.B. Modernization and multiculturalism 396(7)

VII.C. Education in 'crisis' 403(8)

VII.D. 'Modernizing' education: The evolution of design 411(6)

VII.E. Educational research 417(6)

VII.F. Doing, knowing, saying: Setting new priorities 423(3)

VII.G. The old and the new design for schooling 426(12)

VII.H. Language learning and language acquisition 438(5)

VII.I. Discourse in the classroom 443(5)

VII.J. Literacy and reading in 'native language' education 448(17)

VII.K. Literacy and writing in 'native language' education 465(35)

VII.K.1 Basic writing 471(5)

VII.K.2 'Grammar' in the classroom 476(5)

VII.K.3 Composition 481(12)

VII.K.4 Literature in the schools 493(7)

VII.L. 'Non-native language' education 500(8)

Commentaries to Ch. VII 508(9)

VIII Discourse and the 'Whole Human Being' 517(67)

VIII.A. The prospects for 'wholeness' 517(1)

VIII.B. Discourse and culture in 'modern' diversity 518(14)

VIII.C. Discourse and ideology 532(11)

VIII.D. Discourse and gender 543(14)

VIII.E. Discourse and emotion 557(23)

Commentaries to Ch. VIII 580(4)
References 584(62)
Index of Names 646(10)
Index of Terms 656