Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: GLOBAL COHERENCE AND GENRE Global Coherence and Global Discourse Relations Topic-based Approaches to Global Coherence Global Coherence and Grounding In Discourse PART 2: EXPECTATIONS OF RELEVANCE AND GENRE Expectations of Relevance Expectations of Relevance, Implicit Questioning in Discourse, and Genre Empirical Issues in Global Coherence and Discourse Typology Genre in Code-based Theories of Communication Conversational Maxims and Genre A Re-analysis of Genre and its Implications for Pragmatics Notes Bibliography Index