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Tables of Contents for Textual Interaction
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures
xi
Tables
xv
Acknowledgments
xvi
What to expect and what not to expect
1
10
Bibliographical end-notes
7
4
Text as a site for interaction
11
24
Introduction
11
2
Text as a site of interaction amongst author, writer, audience and reader
13
2
Purposes of the interactions amongst author, writer, audience and reader
15
3
The writer's desire to meet the audience's needs
18
9
Signals from writer to reader: moment-by-moment guidance
27
3
Clause relations as a reflection of a text's interactivity
30
1
Implications for the language learner
31
1
Bibliographical end-notes
32
3
Interaction in text -- the larger perspective
35
17
Introduction
35
1
Questions that receive a deferred answer
35
8
Signals as messages from writer to reader: previews and intertextuality
43
6
Implications for the language learner
49
1
Bibliographical end-notes
50
2
The hierarchical organisation of texts
52
20
An apology and an introduction
52
1
A reader's larger questions
52
1
Texts with a simple hierarchical organisation
53
4
The hierarchical organisation of a joke
57
1
Setting
58
4
A more complicated example: a first visit to Goldilocks and the Three Bears
62
4
A return to Death and the Compass
66
4
Bibliographical end-notes
70
2
The organisation of some `Cinderella' texts
72
21
Introduction
72
1
The criminal statue
73
1
The text as `colony'
74
1
The definition of a colony
75
2
The properties of a colony
77
10
Texts classified according to the properties of a colony
87
2
The way colonies are read
89
1
Implications for the language learner
90
1
A footnote
91
1
Bibliographical end-notes
92
1
A matrix perspective on text
93
26
The structure of a happening and its possible tellings
93
5
The matrix as a kind of telling
98
2
The variable precision of matrices
100
2
The matrix analysis of a newspaper story
102
3
A matrix perspective on Death and the Compass
105
4
An extension of the notion of the matrix
109
8
Some implications for language learning
117
1
Bibliographical end-notes
118
1
Culturally popular patterns of text organisation
119
23
Introduction
119
1
Schemata and scripts
119
2
Culturally popular patterns of organisation
121
2
The Problem-Solution pattern
123
2
The signals of a Problem-Solution pattern
125
2
An intermediate stage between Problem and Response
127
1
Two advertisements displaying Problem-Solution patterning
128
2
Recycling in Problem-Solution patterns
130
3
Participant-linking in Problem-Solution patterns
133
5
Interlocking patterns in narrative
138
2
Summary of the characteristics of Problem-Solution patterns
140
1
Bibliographical end-notes
141
1
Other culturally popular patterns
142
28
Introduction
142
1
The limitations of Problem-Solution patterning
142
3
The Goal-Achievement pattern
145
5
The Opportunity-Taking pattern
150
5
The Desire Arousal-Fulfilment pattern
155
6
The Gap in Knowledge-Filling pattern
161
3
A final return to Death and the Compass
164
2
One pattern or many?
166
1
Some implications for language learning
167
2
Bibliographical end-notes
169
1
When the pattern turns into a dialogue
170
19
Introduction
170
1
Question-Answer patterns
170
6
Why Question-Answer is different
176
2
The relationship of Question-Answer patterns to Claim-Response patterns
178
5
A cline of patterns
183
1
Where patterning and interaction meet
184
3
A short conclusion
187
1
Bibliographical end-notes
188
1
Bibliography
189
11
Index
200