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Chapter 1 The study discourse: discourse - the text-linguisticperspective; text as a unit; content, form and structure; cohesion; text,meaning and context; the data of discourse; analysis. Chapter 2 The modes ofdiscourse: speech events and schemata; genres or discourse types - spoken andwritten; discourse modes; the narrative mode; the non-narrative mode;defining characteristics of the two modes. Chapter 3 Discourse units andrelations: narrative parts and plot; units as thematic categories; narrativesequence and hierarchy; non-narrative units in sequence; ideational acts;intentional relations and arguments. Chapter 4 Discourse organization:discourse markers; participant chains; time chains; lexical patterning I;lexical patterning II; sentence structure patterning; the synergy of signals.Chapter 5 Structures and functions: evaluation and tellability in narrative;strategies of involvement; narrative performance; summary; non-narrativerhetorical patterns and functions; evaluation in non-narrative discourse;functions and generic structures. Chapter 6 Narrative and non-narrative ininteraction: contexts of interaction; between narrative and non-narrative;non-patterned discourse; the interaction of analyses; units and structures;functions and relations; knowledge in discourse; interdisciplinaryaffiliations and emerging paradigms; towards an integration of discourseapproaches.