Table of contents
Forewordix
British Traditions in Text Analysis — From Firth to Sinclair1
1. Spoken and Written Discourse
Inexplicitness — A Feature of Naturalness in Conversation37
Topic as a Dynamic Element in Spoken Discourse55
Interpreting Multi-act Moves in Spoken Discourse75
Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse95
Professional Conflict — Disagreement in Academic Discourse115
2. Corpus Studies: Theory and Practice
A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar — Principles, Methods and Examples137
Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? — The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies157
Corpus Evidence of Language Change — The Case of the Intensifier177
Interpretative Nodes in Discourse — Actual and Actually193
Who Can Make Nice a Better Word Than Pretty? — Collocation, Translation, and Psycholinguistics213
Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies — Implications and Applications233
3. Text and Technology: Computational Tools
A Prototype Boundary Marker253
From Firth Principles — Computational Tools for the Study of Collocation271
Statistical Methods and Large Corpora — A New Tool for Describing Text Types293
The Automatic Analysis of Dictionaries — Parsing Cobuild Explanations313
Teaching, Text and Technology — A Hypermedia Environment333
Index353
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