Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- On analysing and evaluating written text -- Trust the text -- Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English -- Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English -- Predictive categories in expository text -- Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion -- The text and its message -- The analysis of fixed expressions in text -- The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species -- Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse -- Inferences in discourse comprehension -- Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics -- Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse -- Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP -- On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals -- Negatives in written text -- It, this and that -- The structure of newspaper editorials -- On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives -- References.