Text linguistics : the how and why of meaning

Acknowledgement Preface Part One: a Functional Approach 1. Functions and Components of Language 2. Experiential systems 3. Material and mental processes 4. Verbal and relational processes 5. Participants and circumstances 6. Things and "meta-things" 7. Modality in English: modals and "pseudo-modals" Part Two: Text and Texture 8. Textual meaning 9. Rhetorical structure of texts Part Three: Case Studies in Text Linguistics 10. Stepping into meaning: a case study of Billy Graham's address at the National Prayer and Memorial Service at the Episcopal National Cathedral on 14 September 2001 11. Visualizing the architeXture of a text: analyzing Obama's first inaugural address and Nixon's second inaugural address 12. Arriving at a theory of the text: a case study of the commencement addresses delivered by Steve Jobs and Susan Rice