ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two basic discourse structures in English within their linguistic contexts, noting that the study of written discourse should include the following perspectives of language use:
(a) A study of the grammar of the clause in the sentence. This includes such connective devices as conjunctions and their lexical paraphrases (lexical metalanguage), other adverbials, substitutes of various kinds and repetition, which includes the replacement of the clause (see examples 1-5 for this on pp. 51 and 52), tense, modality, aspect etc., all of which signal the place of the clause in its sentence with respect to clauses in adjoining sentences.
