Discourse Variation in Medical Texts: Schema, Theme and Cohesion on Professional and Journalistic Accounts

Abstracts according addition adopted analysis appears approach aspects associated attempt audience authors cancer cells chapter characterization cohesion communicative compared concept concerned conjunction consistent constant constituent elements contained context corpus Danes Describing differences discourse discussion disease effect English examined example exist expressions fact field function given Halliday identified indicate instance Introduction Journal knowledge language lexical items linguistic means Methods Move myocardial infarction names observed occur organization particular patients popular possible present problem procedure professional pronoun question RAP texts reader realized reference regard reported represent rheme sample schematic scientific Scientist selected sentence shows similar simple specific structure suggest Swales Table tend texts theme three genres titles topic TP pattern types units University utterance variation writers written