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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Why we need a vertical revolution in linguistics
2 A spectrum and profile approach to discourse analysis
3 Two hypotheses regarding text generation and analysis
4 Some interlocking concerns which govern participant reference in narrative
5 The dynamics of reported dialogue in narrative
6 The paragraph as a grammatical unit
7 The discourse structure of the flood narrative
8 Building for the worship of God
9 Genesis as soap opera: Some observations about storytelling in the Hebrew Bible
10 Exhortation and mitigation in First John
11 A top-down, template-driven narrative analysis, illustrated by application to Mark’s gospel
12 Mark 5.1-43: Generating the complexity of a narrative from its most basic elements
13 The discourse strategy of an appeals letter
14 Holistic Textlinguistics
15 Some hermeneutic observations on textlinguistics and text theory in the humanities
