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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.