Part 1 Practice and theory: "Register" in discourse studies - a concept in search of a theory, R. de Beaugrande; the specification of a text - register, genre and language teaching, Helen Leckie-Tarry. Part 2 Controlling and changing ideologies: drama praxis and the dialogic imperative, David Birch; evaluation and ideology in scientific writing, Susan Hunston. Part 3 The role of metaphor - grammatical and lexical: the discourse of history - distancing the recoverable past, Suzanne Eggins, Peter Wignell and J.R. Martin; species of metaphor in written and spoken varieties, Andrew Goatly. Part 4 Quantitative evidence for register analysis: on the nature of written business communication, Mohsen Ghadessy; pragmatic and macro thematic patterns in science and popular science - a diachronic study of articles from three fields, Britt-Louise Gunnarsson. Part 5 Computer applications: text processing using the functional grammar processor (FGP), Jonathan J. Webster; collocation in computer modelling of Lexis as most delicate grammar, Marilyn Cross. Part 6 A unified theory of register analysis: register in the round - diversity in a unified theory of register analysis, Christian Matthiessen.
