List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I: Generalia;
1. Introduction: Bringing Things into Focus
1.1 The field of scrutiny
1.2 A Programme
1.21 What do we know about texts?
1.22 What do we need to find out?
1.3 Defining terms
1.4 Aims and structure of the book Notes to Chapter One; Part II: Setting up the system; 2: Discourse
2.1 What IS a discourse
2.2 Summary: the properties of discourse
2.3 Sentences, propositions and semantic notation
2.4 Sketch of a model of D-grammar
2.5 Review section Notes to Chapter Two;
3. Context
3.1 Linguistic and extralinguistic context: competence or performance?
3.2 Review section: context-of-utterance
3.21 Immediate situation
3.22 Towards a model of situation
3.3 Frames and scenes
4.3 States-of-affairs
3.5 The common ground
3.6 Relevance Notes to Chapter Three;
4. Connectivity
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Cohesion
4.21 Anapora: a first glance
4.3 Collocation
4.4 Connectors
4.5 Coherence
4.51 An informal analysis
4.52 The coherence constraint Notes to Chapter Four;
5. Theoretical Considerations: Sharpening the Focus
5.1 Constraints in general
5.11 Review in action
5.12 Coherence constraints: general considerations
5.2 Positive coherence and synonymy
5.3 Negative coherence and antonymy
5.4 The coherence constraint: precise formulation Notes to Chapter Five; Part III: A text-grammar;
6. Emphasis
6.1 Emphasis-placement: an illustration
6.2 Is emphasis a surface-structure phenomenon?
6.21 What a phonological
6.22 A possible phonological account of emphasis
6.23 Some counterexamples
6.24 Summary: emphasis-interpretation from surface-structure
6.3 Is emphasis semantic/pragmatic in nature?
6.31 What a semantic/pragmatic account must do
6.32 Rules for emphasis
6.33 Arguments for the semantic/pragmatic nature of emphasis
6.4 Nature and behaviour of Reduction
6.5 Nature and behaviour of Accent
6.6 Nature and behaviour of Contrast
6.7 Review Section Notes to Chapter Six;
7. Contrast
7.1 Contrast on grammatical items
7.2 Contrast on lexical items
7.3 Summary: Contrast on grammatical and lexical categories
7.4 Semantic properties of sets
7.5 C and negative coherence Notes to Chapter Seven;
8. Anaphoric Connectivity
8.1 Resume of anaphora
8.2 Reference
8.3 Type of anaphor
8.4 The role of emphasis
8.5 Anaphora as coherence
8.6 Reciprocal anaphora: two views
8.61 The view from G-B
8.62 Each
8.63 Other
8.64 Quantifier-floating
8.65 Reciprocals in complex sentences
8.66 Ambiguity of the phrasal form
8.67 Reciprocals and discourse
8.7 Anaphora and coherence Notes to Chapter Eight;
9. Syntactic Variation: Getting Movement into Focus
9.1 Introduction: "Movement" in recent grammatical models
9.2 Topic-comment articulation: review section
9.21 TCA and emphasis
9.22 The TCA constraint
9.3 Syntactic effects: summary of predictions
9.4 "Unmoved" structures
9.41 Behaviour of stress in unmoved structures
9.5 Passives: predictions of TCA constraint
9.51 Contexts with and without passives
9.52 Why passivise at all?
9.6 "Emphatic" constructions
9.61 Examples of emphatic constructions in context
9.62 Why cleft of pseudo-cleft? Notes to Chapter nine;
10. Conclusions
10.1 Summary
10.2 Implications
10.3 Empirical evidence for emphasis; Bibliography and Author-Index; Subject-Index