The Texture of Discourse -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1.1. The landscape of discourse studies -- 1.2. Challenges for a connectivity theory -- 1.3. About this study -- Discourse as discursive and dialogic -- 2.1. Discourse, texture and connectivity -- 2.2. First explorations -- 2.3. The discursive principle -- 2.4. The dialogic principle -- 2.5. The principles as a framework -- Conjunction -- 3.1. Discourse basics -- 3.2. Location -- 3.3. Ordination -- 3.4. Combination -- 3.5. Schema and application -- Adjunction -- 4.1. On adding information -- 4.2. Elaboration -- 4.3. Extension -- 4.4. Enhancement -- 4.5. Schema and application -- Interjunction -- 5.1. From addresser to addressee -- 5.2. Expressing relations -- 5.3. Processing relations -- 5.4. Impressing relations -- 5.5. Schema and application -- The Connectivity Model -- 6.1. A new taxonomy of discourse relations -- 6.2. Adjunction relations, an overview -- 6.3. Interjunction relations, an overview -- The architecture of the model -- 7.1. Notes on terminology -- 7.2. The Conjunction as a base -- 7.3. The levels of Adjunction and Interjunction -- 7.4. Positioning discourse relations -- This model and other models -- 8.1. Cohesion structures -- 8.2. On defining discourse relations -- 8.3. The domain of connectivity -- 8.4. Comparing taxonomies -- 8.5. Controlled increasability -- The representation of discourse -- 9.1. The unit of analysis -- 9.2. Discourse trees -- 9.3. Comments on trees -- 9.4. Connectivity graphs -- 9.5. An example of a connectivity graph -- The interpretation of discourse relations -- 10.1. The coding procedure -- 10.2. On the ambiguity of discourse relations -- 10.3. Approaches to disambiguation of discourse relations -- 10.4. Three strategies for disambiguation -- 10.5. Examples of disambiguation -- Starting the analysis.

11.1. Choosing a heuristic approach -- 11.2. Detecting form - function correspondences -- 11.3. The challenge of Conjunction analysis -- 11.4. Using other analyses -- Some research examples -- 12.1. Signposts in discourse -- 12.2. On discourse competence -- 12.3. Discourse relations in the communication process -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.