Contents
Preface iv
About the authors v
1 Towards an analysis of discourse 1
John Sinclair and Malcolm Coulthard
2 The significance of intonation in discourse 35
Malcolm Coulthard
3 Exchange structure 50
Malcolm Coulthard and David Brazil
4Priorities in discourse analysis 79
John Sinclair
5 A functional description of questions 89
Amy Tsui
6 Caught in the act: using the rank scale to address
problems of delicacy 111
Dave Willis
7 Analysing everyday conversation 123
Gill Francis and Susan Hunston
8 Inner and outer: spoken discourse in the language classroom 162
Jane Willis
9 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom 183
Martin Hewings
10 Interactive lexis: prominence and paradigms 197
Mike McCarthy
11 Listening to people reading 209
David Brazil
12 Forensic discourse analysis 242
Malcolm Coulthard
Bibliography 259
