Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Analyzing Language Form and Language in Use
1.2 Discourse Analysis — A Brief Historical Review
1.3 Discourse and Discourse Analysis
1.4 Discourse Analysis: Focus and Approaches
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Chapter 2 The Complex World of Discourse
2.1 Spoken and Written Discourse: Broad Categories
2.2 Finer Distinctions and Considerations
2.3 Language Variation Reconsidered
2.4 Register: A Theory on Language Variation
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Chapter 3 Discourse Intention and Interpretation
3.1 Language Functions
3.2 Speech Acts
3.3 Context
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Chapter 4 Microstructural Properties
4.1 Reference
4.2 Substitution and Ellipsis
4.3 Ellipsis
4.4 Conjunction
4.5 Features of Lexical Cohesion
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Chapter 5 Analyzing Spoken Discourse
5.1 Theoretical Contribution of Pragmatics to Discourse Analysis
5.2 Conversational Analysis
5.3 Communication Theory: System Constraints and Ritual Constraints
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Chapter 6 Analyzing Written Discourse
6.1 Discourse Markers
6.2 Clause Relations
6.3 Written Discourse Patterns
6.4 Textual Patterns
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Chapter 7 ThemeRheme Patterns and Information Structure
7.1 Functional Perspective of Sentences
7.2 Theme and Rheme: Syntactic Structure asOrganization of Message
7.3 Thematising Structures
7.4 Information Structure
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Chapter 8 Genre Research from Three Traditions
8.1 Definitions of Genre
8.2 Models of Genre Analysis
8.3 Implications of Genre Research for ESL
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Chapter 9 Intertextuality: Dialogic Nature of Discourse
9.1 The Concept of Intertextuality
9.2 Intertextuality and Dialogue
9.3 Levels of Intertextuality
9.4 Linguistic Realizations of Intertextuality
9.5 Intertextuality in Application
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Chapter 10 Critical Discourse Analysis
10.1 General Understanding of CDA
10.2 The History and Development of CDA
10.3 Methodology of CDA
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