Introduction to English Text-linguistics

This is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics.It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence.Further topics are corpus-based studies in lexical patterns and in text classifications, psycholinguistic and cognitive studies in text constitution and decoder-orientation.One special feature of this book is that it not only covers abstract lexical and grammatical structures but also medium-dependent written and spoken presentation.