Connecting textual patterns to text aboutness

This thesis investigates the relationships between cohesion in texts and the meanings of the texts. I analyze hard news texts and the summaries written by competent readers for the texts in terms of nuclei (i.e. the combinations of Process and Medium) (Halliday, 1994), and examine the characteristic...

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Main Author: Li, Yuan ke
Published: University of Liverpool 2011
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415
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569651