This book provides an in-depth analysis of the
generic integrity of English newspaper editorials. It
applies a Hallidayian SFL (Systemic Functional
Linguistics) framework of text analysis to an array
of native and non-native English editorials. It
catalogs their micro-textual index (Chain Interaction
analysis) and uncovers their macro-rhetorical
skeleton (Generic Structure Potential analysis).
Finally, it offers a qualitative and quantitative
cross-cultural comparison to highlight textual
variation from one culture to another. The findings,
likely to be of interest to those involved...

The Structure of Scientific Discourse: Discipline-Specificity vs. Universality presents details of an empirical study that investigates whether the functional structure of scientific English discourse and the formal linguistic elements commonly associated with this particular type of English discourse are identical across a variety of academic disciplines of higher education. To this end, 300 textbooks written by 300 different writers on eight branches of science (30 x 8 = 240) and two branches of the fine arts (30 x 2 = 60) are examined. It appears that homogeneity of English discourse...