"The selection of papers presented here was originally published in 2010 as a special issue (3.2) of the journal English Text Construction."

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter uses cogniti

′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for t

With the advent and increasing popularity of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and e-learning technologies, the need of automatic assessment and

This book covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse. It combines a theoretical framework with empirical engagement, and brings togethe