Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

List of tables and figures
Tables
Table 1-1: Frequency of writer and reader pronouns
in the 
Applied Linguistics 
corpus ......................................................16
Table 1-2: Frequency of possessive determiners
in the 
Applied Linguistics 
corpus ......................................................18
Table 1-3: Frequency of ‘third party’ pronouns
in the 
Applied Linguistics 
corpus ......................................................20
Table 1-4: Frequency of demonstratives in the 
Applied Linguistics
corpus ......22
Table 2-1: Frequency rates of all semantic classes
of conjuncts in both corpora .............................................................36
Table 2-1a: Listing (enumerative) conjuncts in both corpora ............................39
Table 2-1b: Listing (additive) conjuncts in both corpora ...................................39
Table 2-2: Summative conjuncts in both corpora ..............................................42
Table 2-3: Appositive conjuncts in both corpora ...............................................45
Table 2-4: Resultive/inferential conjuncts in both corpora ................................47
Table 2-5: Contrastive/concessive conjuncts in both corpora ............................50
Table 2-6: Transitional conjuncts in both corpora .............................................54
Table 3-1: Pragmatic functions of 
I mean
in different speech 
event categories in academic spoken discourse (MICASE) .............66
Table 3-2: Pragmatic functions of 
I mean
with regard to turn position .............69
Figures
Figure 4-1: 
Openness in text
(adapted from W. van Peer 1989: 279) ................90
Figure 6-1: A model for analysis of discourse coherence ................................132

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