Patterns of Text: In Honour of Michael Hoey

 Content: Patterns of Text; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why \'patterns of text \'?; Colligation, lexis, pattern, and text; Lexical signals of word relations; Patterns of cohesion in spoken text; Issues in modelling the textual metafunction; Mapping key words to problem and solution; The negotiation of evaluation in written text; Some discourse patterns and signalling of the assessment -basis relation; Repeat after me: The role of repetition in the life of an emergent reader; Lexical segments in text; Patterns of lexis on the surface of texts.
 Abstract:             It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they ma