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Preface; Introduction; Part I. Discourse Structure: 1. Introduction tothe discourse modes; 2. Discourse modes; 3. Text representation andunderstanding; Part II. Linguistic Analysis of the Discourse Modes: 4.Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse; 5. Temporal andspatial progression; 6. Referring expressions in discourse; Part III. SurfacePresentational Factors: Introduction to Part III; 7. Subjectivity in texts;8. The contribution of surface presentation; 9. Non-canonical structures andpresentation; Part IV. Discourse Modes and their Context: 10. Information intext passages; 11. Discourse structure and discourse modes; Appendix A: TheTexts; Appendix B: Glossary.