Michael P. Jordan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael P. Jordan plays a role.
2007 Interactive solution-problems: A set of structures in general and scientific writing Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 279–300 | Article
The theory of problem-solution patterning is already well established for a wide range of genres and at macrostructure and microstructure levels of communication. That theory has, however, largely failed to account for interactive solution-problems: where a solution is or causes a problem to… read more
2001 Some discourse patterns and signalling of theassessment-basis relation Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey, Scott, Mike and Geoff Thompson † (eds.), pp. 159–192 | Article
Editors’ introduction
As noted in the Introduction, we can focus on the patterns of text from two broad, related perspectives: in terms of
repetition and of conjunction. A number of the papers in this collection combine these two perspectives, though often
with a greater emphasis on one: for… read more
1998 Pragmatic, stylistic and grammatical limitations on choice: A study of cause-effect signalling in English Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in spoken and written English, Sánchez-Macarro, Antonia and Ronald Carter (eds.), pp. 65–86 | Article
1992 An Integrated Three-Pronged Analysis of a Fund-Raising Letter Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text, Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 171–226 | Article