Textbook:
Martin, Jim R. and David Rose: Working with Discourse. Meaning beyond the Clause, 2nd edition 2007. London/New York: Continuum. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 8.
Articles in Compendium (Available from Kopiutsalget, Akademika, at the beginning of term):
- Berry, Margaret. 1995. Thematic options and success in writing. In Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.) Thematic Development in English Texts. London: Pinter, 55–84.
- Chafe, Wallace. 1987. Cognitive constraints on information flow. In Tomlin, Russel. (ed.). 1987. Coherence and Grounding in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 21–52.
- Coffin, Caroline and Barbara Mayor. 2004. Texturing writer and reader reference in novice academic writing. In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 239-264.
- Daneš, František. 1974. Functional Sentence Perspective and the organization of the text. In Daneš, František (ed.) Papers on Functional Sentence Persepctive. Prague: Academia, 106–128.
- Fetzer, Anita. 2008. Theme zones in English media discourse: Forms and functions. Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 40. 1543-1568.
- Firbas, Jan. 1986. On the dynamics of written communication in the light of the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective. In Cooper Charles R. and Sidney Greenbaum (eds). 1986. Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 40-71.
- Francis, Gill. 1994. Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion. In Coulthard, Malcolm (ed.) 1994. Advances in Written Text Analysis. London: Routledge, 83-101.
- Fries, Peter H. 2004. What makes a text coherent? In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 9-50.
- Gilquin, Gaëtanelle and Magali Paquot. 2008. Too chatty: Learner academic writing and register variation. English Text Construction 1:1, 62-82.
- Halliday, M.A.K. 1990. The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse: with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Reprinted in M.A.K. Halliday 2002, Linguistic Studies of Text and Discourse (ed. by Jonathan Webster). London: Continuum, 168-192.
- Halliday, M.A.K. 1993. Some grammatical problems in scientific English. In M.A.K. Halliday and Jim Martin. Writing Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 69–85.
- Halliday, M.A.K and Christian Matthiessen. 2004. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Arnold. 3rd ed., Chapter 3 (64-105).
- Hasan, Ruqaiya. 1985. The texture of a text. In M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hasan. Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Geelong: Deakin University Press, 70–96.
- Hasselgård, Hilde. 2004. The role of multiple themes in cohesion. In Ajimer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.). Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 65-87.
- McCabe, Anne. Thematic progression patterns and text types in history textbooks. In Banks, David (ed.) Text and Texture. Paris: L’Harmattan, 215-237.
- North, Sarah. 2005. Disciplinary variation in the use of Theme in undergraduate essays. Applied Linguistics 26 (3), 431-452.
- Prince, Ellen F. 1981. Toward a taxonomy of given–new information. In Cole, Peter (ed.), Radical Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, 223–255.
- Prince, Ellen F. 1992. The ZPG letter: Subjects, definiteness, and information-status. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) Discourse Description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising Text. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 295–326.
- Rundblad, Gabriella. 2008. We, ourselves and who else? Differences in use of passive voice and metonymy for oneself versus other researchers in medical research articles. English Text Construction 1:1, 23-40.
Secondary reading (for reference):
- Biber, Douglas, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Chapter 11 (Word order and related syntactic choices), 895-964.
- Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 16. (Information packaging.)
- Jespersen, Otto. 1949. A Modern English Grammar, Vol. VII. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard. Chapter II (Sentence Structure and Word-Order), 53-107.
- Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik, 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Chapter 18, 1355-1418.
- Halliday, M.A.K. and Christian Matthiessen. 2004. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. London: Arnold. 3rd ed., Chapters 3, 9 and 10.
It is recommended that students obtain their own copies of Martin & Rose 2007 Working with Discourse. Other items will be provided in a compendium.