List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Practice and theory -- 1. 'Register' in discourse studies: a concept in search of a theory -- 2. The specification of a text: register, genre and language teaching -- Pt. II. Controlling and changing ideologies -- 3. Drama praxis and the dialogic imperative -- 4. Evaluation and ideology in scientific writing -- Pt. III. The role of metaphor: grammatical and lexical -- 5. The discourse of history: distancing the recoverable past -- 6. Species of metaphor in written and spoken varieties -- Pt. IV. Quantitative evidence for register analysis -- 7. On the nature of written business communication -- 8. Pragmatic and macrothematic patterns in science and popular science: a diachronic study of articles from three fields -- Pt. V. Computer applications -- 9. Text processing using the Functional Grammar Processor (FGP) -- 10. Collocation in computer modelling of lexis as most delicate grammar -- Pt. VI. A unified theory of register analysis -- 11. Register in the round: diversity in a unified theory of register analysis -- Name index -- Subject index
