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Foreword 2. British Traditions in Text Analysis - From Firth to Sinclair (by Stubbs, Michael) 3. 1. Spoken and Written Discourse 4. Inexplicitness - A Feature of Naturalness in Conversation (by Warren, Martin) 5. Topic as a Dynamic Element in Spoken Discourse (by Hazadiah, Mohd Dahan) 6. Interpreting Multi-act Moves in Spoken Discourse (by Tsui, Amy B.M.) 7. Theme and Prospection in Written Discourse (by Mauranen, Anna) 8. Professional Conflict - Disagreement in Academic Discourse (by Hunston, Susan) 9. 2. Corpus Studies: Theory and Practice 10. A Corpus-Driven Approach to Grammar - Principles, Methods and Examples (by Francis, Gill) 11. Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? - The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies (by Louw, Bill) 12. Corpus Evidence of Language Change - The Case of the Intensifier (by Partington, Alan) 13. Interpretative Nodes in Discourse - Actual and Actually (by Tognini-Bonelli, Elena) 14. Who Can Make Nice a Better Word Than Pretty? - Collocation, Translation, and Psycholinguistics (by Malmkjaer, Kirsten) 15. Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies - Implications and Applications (by Baker, Mona) 16. 3. Text and Technology: Computational Tools 17. A Prototype Boundary Marker (by Coniam, David) 18. From Firth Principles - Computational Tools for the Study of Collocation (by Clear, Jeremy) 19. Statistical Methods and Large Corpora - A New Tool for Describing Text Types (by Nakamura, Junsaku) 20. The Automatic Analysis of Dictionaries - Parsing Cobuild Explanations (by Barnbrook, Geoff) 21. Teaching, Text and Technology - A Hypermedia Environment (by Allen, Margaret) 22. Index
W. Nelson Francis (Thu,) studied this question.