Hoey Michael. Textual Interaction: An Introduction to Written Discourse Analysis

Routledge, 2001. — xvii, 203 pages.— ISBN: 041523168X.Textual Interaction provides a clear and cogent account of written discourse analysis. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and major issues, and suggests how to apply the ideas to the teaching and learning of reading and writing. In this activity-based book, Hoey analyzes a wide variety of narrative texts and argues that, in the interaction between writer and reader, the reader has as much power as the writer.What to expect and what not to expect
Bibliographical end-notes
Text as a site for interactionText as a site of interaction amongst author, writer, audience and reader
Purposes of the interactions amongst author, writer, audience and reader
The writer's desire to meet the audience's needs
Signals from writer to reader: moment-by-moment guidance
Clause relations as a reflection of a text's interactivity
Implications for the language learner
Bibliographical end-notes
Interaction in text - the larger perspectiveQuestions that receive a deferred answer
Signals as messages from writer to reader: previews and intertextuality
Implications for the language learner
Bibliographical end-notes
The hierarchical organisation of texts
An apology and an introduction
A reader's larger questions
Texts with a simple hierarchical organisation
The hierarchical organisation of a joke
Setting
A more complicated example: a first visit to Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A return to Death and the Compass
Bibliographical end-notes
The organisation of some 'Cinderella' textsThe criminal statute
The text as 'colony'
The definition of a colony
The properties of a colony
Texts classified according to the properties of a colony
The way colonies are read
Implications for the language learner
A footnote
Bibliographical end-notes
A matrix perspective on text
The structure of a happening and its possible tellings
The matrix as a kind of telling
The variable precision of matrices
The matrix analysis of a newspaper story
A matrix perspective on Death and the Compass
An extension of the notion of the matrix
Some implications for language learning
Bibliographical end-notes
Culturally popular patterns of text organisationSchemata and scripts
Culturally popular patterns of organisation
The Problem-Solution pattern
The signals of a Problem-Solution pattern
An intermediate stage between Problem and Response
Two advertisements displaying Problem-Solution patterning
Recycling in Problem-Solution patterns
Participant-linking in Problem-Solution patterns
Interlocking patterns in narrative
Summary of the characteristics of Problem-Solution patterns
Bibliographical end-notes
Other culturally popular patternsThe limitations of Problem-Solution patterning
The Goal-Achievement pattern
The Opportunity-Taking pattern
The Desire Arousal-Fulfilment pattern
The Gap in Knowledge-Filling pattern
A final return to Death and the Compass
One pattern or many?
Some implications for language learning
Bibliographical end-notes
When the pattern turns into a dialogueQuestion-Answer patterns
Why Question-Answer is different
The relationship of Question-Answer patterns to Claim
Response patterns
A cline of patterns
Where patterning and interaction meet
A short conclusion
Bibliographical end-notes