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British traditions in text analysis - from Firth to Sinclair, MichaelStubbs. Part 1 Spoken and written discourse: inexplicitness - a feature ofnaturalness in conversation, Martin Warren; topic as a dynamic element inspoken discourse, Hazadiah M.D.; interpreting multi-act moves in spokendiscourse, Amy B.M. Tsui; theme and prospection in written discourse, AnnaMauranen; professional conflict - disagreement in academic discourse, SusanHunston. Part 2 Corpus studies - theory and practice: a corpus-drivenapproach to grammar - principles, methods and examples, Gill Francis; ironyin the text of insincerity in the writer? - the diagnostic potential ofsemantic prosodies, Bill Louw; corpus evidence of language change - the caseof the intensifier, Alan Partington; interactive nodes in discourse - actualand actually, Elena Tognini-Bonelli; who can make nice a better word thanpretty? - collocation, translation and psycholinguistics, Kirsten Malmkjaer;corpus linguistics and translation studies - implications and applications,Mona Baker. Part 3 Text and technology - computational tools: a prototypeboundary marker, David Coniam; from Firth principles - computational toolsfor the study of collocation, Jeremy Clear; statistical methods and largecorpora - a new tool for describing text types, Junsaku Nakamura; theautomatic analysis of dictionaries - parsing cobuild explanations, GeoffBarnbrook; teaching, text and technology, Margaret Allen.