1-4 Types of Text 1
1 Means of Production:Number of Speakers 3
2 Type of Content:Text Genres 7
3 Manner of Production:Style and Register 11
4 Medium of Production:Oral Versus Written 15
5-15 Common Characteristics in Discourses 19
5 Coherence 21
6 Cohesion 27
7 Thematic Groupings and Thematic Discontinuities 35
8 Text Charting 43
9 Mental Representations Revisited 49
10 Activation Status,Definiteness,and Referential Status 55
11 Discourse-Pragmatic Structuring of Sentences 61
12 Foreground and Background Information 79
13 Signaling Relations Between Propositions 87
14 The Reporting of Conversation 97
15 Conventionalized Aspects of Text Organization 103
16-18 Participant Reference 109
16 Basic Notions of Reference 111
17 Strategies of Reference 117
18 A Methodology for Analyzing Reference Patterns 127
Appendices 137
Appendix A:"Winds of Terror" 137
Appendix B:"The Train Ride" 141
Appendix C:Extract from"The Healer and His Wife" 145
References 149
Index 159