Contents: Piroska Kocsány: The results and/or failure of text typology - Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy: Toward a cognitive discourse typology - Edit Dobi: The possibilities of formal linguistic analysis in the representation of texts - Erzsébet Fehér: Text typology in the rhetorical tradition - Éva Andó: Cognitive and functional aspects of the analysis of spoken language storytelling - Ágnes Hámori: On discourse genres - Szilvia Takács: Text typology in folkloristic studies. Epic incantational prayers - Szilárd Tátrai: Perspective and deixis in narrative discourses.
The Editor: Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy is Professor of Hungarian Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). He is the author or editor of 14 books, mainly on discourse (text linguistics), style, literature and Hungarian cognitive grammar, including A Cognitive Theory of Style (2005).