Text And Texture: Patterns Of Cohesion (advances In Discourse Processes) [Hardcover]

THE NATURE OF TEXTURE IN TEXTS
The Dynamics of Texts
The Texture of Texts
The Patterns of Texts
A Definition of Text
THE NATURE OF COHESION
A Definition of Cohesion
The Perception of Cohesion
Three Hypotheses
ANALYZING PATTERNS OF COHESION
Selection of Cohesion Types for Analysis
Selection of a Corpus
Selection of a Reader-Subject
Design of a Computer Program
COHESION AS A COMPONENT OF TEXTURE IN TEXTS
The Incidence of Cohesion
The Relativeness of Cohesion
The Visual Patterning of Cohesion
COHESION PATTERNS AND TEXTURE
Evaluating the Methodology
Evaluating Text as Process
Evaluating the Results
Implications of Cohesion and Texture in Texts
The Perspective of Texture
References
Appendix A: List of Texts Analyzed
Appendix B: List of Abbreviations Used in Tables A - T
Appendix C: Excerpt from Snobol 4 Computer Program
References
Author Index
Subject Index