Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tablesxi
Chapter 1. Introduction: Narrative prospecting
Chapter 2. Collocation and corpus stylistics
Chapter 3. Lexical patternings in short stories
Chapter 4. Top keyword sentences as story waymarking
Chapter 5. Keywords and the language of guidance in "The Love of a Good Woman"
Chapter 6. Repetition and para-repetition in story structure
Chapter 7. Prospection and expectation: Core signalling
Chapter 8. Prospection and expectation: Embedded signalling
Chapter 9. The textual tracking of suspense and surprise.
Chapter 10. Next steps
References
Name index209
Topic index
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