Pragmatics, Discourse and Text: Some Systemically Inspired Approaches

Introduction MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF 'PRAGMATICS' Systemic Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics English Questions: A 'Significance Generating Device' for Building in Context EXPLORATIONS IN THEMATIC STRUCTURE AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE Marked Themes With and Without Pronominal Reinforcement: Their Meaning and Distribution in Discourse Functional Sentence Perspective in the Context of Systemic Functional Grammar Thematization in Legislative Language: The Observations of Bentham and Coode in Relation to the FG Definition of Theme INSIGHTS FROM DISCOURSE ANALYSIS The Structure of Family Conversation in Yoruba English From Illocution to Syntactic and Prosodic Realization in Making Requests THE TEXT AS A PRODUCT OF INTERACTION AND COGNITION Grammatical Metaphor: An Initial Analysis Cohesion in Spoken Arabic Texts Text Structure and Text Semantics Cognitive Processes in Context: A Systemic Approach to Problems in Oral Language Use Bibliography Index