Esser (2009)

Esser, Jürgen. 2009. Introduction to English Text-linguistics. Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL) 2. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.

Series editors: Magnus Huber and Joybrato Mukherjee

This is a comprehensive introduction to English text-linguistics. It deals with those areas of text-linguistics that have enjoyed widespread attention in English linguistics, notably aspects of cohesion and coherence. Further topics are corpus-based studies in lexical patterns and in text classifications, psycholinguistic and cognitive studies in text constitution and decoder-orientation. One special feature of this book is that it not only covers abstract lexical and grammatical structures but also medium-dependent written and spoken presentation.