diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text /
edited by William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson.
Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1992.
xiii, 409 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm.
Pragmatics & beyond,
new ser. 16
0922-842X ;
Includes bibliographical references.
Macro-proposals : meaning by degree / J.R. Martin -- Collocation and field of discourse / James D. Benson and William S. Greaves.
Text as purposive communication : a meaning-based analysis / Kathleen Callow and John C. Callow -- Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis / William C. Mann, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson -- An analysis of a plea for money / Bonnie J.F. Meyer -- The discourse strategy of an appeals letter / Robert E. Longacre -- The notion of unspecific versus specific as one way of analysing the information of a fund-raising letter / Eugene Winter -- An integrated three-pronged analysis of a fund-raising letter / Michael P. Jordan -- How I understand a text, via the structure of the happenings and the telling of them / Evelyn G. Pike -- The flow of ideas in a sample of written language / Wallace Chafe -- The ZPG letter : subjects, definiteness, and information-status / Ellen F. Prince -- Some lexicogrammatical features of the zero population growth text / M.A.K. Halliday.