ANALYSING PROFESSIONAL GENRES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Genre, Terminology, and Corpus Studies -- Genre and Terminology -- Introduction -- Terminology and documentation -- Genre and electronic text corpora -- The relationship between terminology and genre -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Intralingual, Interlingual and Intercultural Studies of Genres -- Singular Utterances: Realizing Local Activities through Typified Formsin Typified Circumstances -- Genre and utterance -- Text, discourse, rhetoric and composition -- Regulation and uniqueness -- Generic ontologies and unique objects -- Translation -- Intertextuality -- Accountability -- Concepts and operations -- References -- Towards Classifying the Arguments in Research Genres -- Introduction -- Previous studies -- Design of this investigation -- Example of arguments -- Developing a surface-feature classification -- A classification of the surface features of minimal arguments -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- "Geological Setting/Cadre Géologique" in English and French Petrology Articles: Muted Indications of Explored Places -- Introduction -- Background -- Features of Geological Setting sections -- Discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Appendix -- References -- Titles of English and German Research Papers in Medicine and Linguistics -- Introduction -- Linguistic research on titles -- Results -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- Genres and the Media -- That's not News: Persuasive and Expository Genres in the Press -- Introduction -- Texts and genres -- The leader page -- Leading articles -- Other non-news genres -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6a+6b -- Appendix 7a+7b.

The Inaugural Address President Clinton's 1993 address -- Communicative functions -- Rhetorical features -- The inaugural address as a genre -- Notes -- References -- Genres in Conflict -- Genres in Conflict -- Introductory -- Legal discourse in Hong Kong -- The Sino-British joint declaration -- The Basic Law -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Conflicts in Professional Discourse: Language, Law and Real Estate -- Case stories -- Conflicting interpretations -- Discourse, communication and culture -- The discourse of estate agents -- Conclusion -- References -- Genres and New Technology (Changing and emerging genres) -- Powerpoints: Technology, Lectures, and Changing Genres -- Introduction -- Changing genres: The old lecture -- The new lecture -- Changes in genres -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Rhetorical Clustering and Perceptual Cohesion in Technical (Online) Documentation -- Introduction -- Aims -- Text, typography and layout -- Perceptual cohesion -- Local cohesion -- Foregrounding -- Globalcohesion -- The technology of text -- Structure and texture in digital documents -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Applied Genre Analysis -- The Role of Genre for Translation -- Introduction -- Text type - genre - Textsorte -- Genres in translation studies -- Using genres in translation teaching -- References -- Broadening the Perspective -- Analysing LSP Genres (Text Types): From Perpetuation to Optimizationin Text(-type) Linguistics -- The present situation in LSP text linguistics -- Descriptive LSP text(-type) linguistics: the methodology of investigating current usage -- From perpetuation to optimization in LSP text(-type) linguistics -- Examples of requirements to be met by LSP texts -- Prospective LSP text(-type) linguistics: the methodology of investigating what is needed -- Notes -- References -- Index.