Below is the list of papers to be presented at EISFW 2001. The abstracts are available here.

Plenary Speakers

Fries, Peter H., Central Michigan University, USA.
What Makes a Text Coherent?

Hoey, Michael, University of Liverpool, UK.
The textual dimension of lexical choice (and I’m not referring to cohesion)

van Leeuwen, Theo, University of Cardiff, UK.
Evaluation and legitimation in discourse – a multimodal approach.

Proposed Papers

Andersen,Thomas, University of Southern Denmark.
The System of Theme in the Danish Clause.

Aronsson, Mia Bostrom, Goteborg University, Sweden.
Thematic Differences between Swedish Advanced Learner Writing and Native Speaker Writing.

Banks, David, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France.
Degrees of Newness.

Bowcher, Wendy, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan.
Theme-Rheme and Given-New Patterns in Radio Play-by-Play  Sports Commentary.

Caffarel, Alice, University of Sydney, Australia
The Representation of a Second-order Semiosis in Camus' L'Etranger.

Coffin, Caroline, Hewings, Ann & Mayor, Barbara, Open University, U.K.
The Textual and the Interpersonal: Theme and affect in student writing.

Cummings, Michael, York University, Canada.
Cohesion and Genre in Continuous Text.

Davies, Martin, U.K.
"Two truths ... of the imperial theme."

Fontaine, Lise, Université de Bordeaux 2, France.
Textual Challenges in Recursive Texts.

Ghadessy, Mohsen, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei & Gao, Yanjie, XJTU, China.
Simplification as a Universal Feature of the Language of Translation.

Gouveia, Carlos A.M., University of Lisbon, Portugal & Barbara, Leila, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil.
It is not there, but [it] is cohesive: the case of pronominal ellipsis of subject in Portuguese.

Hansen de Chambouleyron, Ana, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.
Non-finite Clauses in Thematic Position.

Hasselgård, Hilde, University of Oslo, Norway.
Temporal and Spatial Adjuncts as Elements of Texture.

Lavid, Julia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Building Textual Resources for Multilingual Generation: A function-typological approach.
 

McCabe, Anne, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.
Thematic Progression Patterns and Text Types in History Textbooks.

Morley, David, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Analysing syntactic function: elements of clause structure in systemic grammar.

Nieto Díez, Francisco & Arús Hita, Jorge, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
English and Spanish Structures: The textual metafunction as a contrastive tool for the analysis of languages.

Ormrod, Janet, ENST de Bretagne, France
Theme in Breton: A comparative study of a text in Breton and in French by P.-J. Hélias.

Ribeiro Pedro, Emilia, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Cleft Sentences in Business Meetings in Brazilian and European Portuguese.

Rodriguez, Julia, Universite La Sorbonne- Paris V, France.
Thematic Progression and Field, Tenor and Mode in Two Folktales.

Rowley-Jolivet, Elizabeth, Université d'Orléans, France.
Visual Textual Patterns in Scientific Conference Presentations.

Saki, Mohamed, Université de bretagne Occidentale, France.
Thematic Progression Patterns and Generic Identity. An analysis of the distribution of thematic progression patterns in abstracts.

Schiess, Raimund, University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Reading the Television Screen: Text, texture, screen design.

Silvestre, Carminda, ESTG-IPL/ULICES, Portugal.
Discourse Markers as Texture Creating Devices in Business Meetings.

Spence, Robert, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
The Textual Metafunction as a Didactic Problem in Applied Translation Studies.

Sriniwass, Sridevi, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
A Systemic-Semantic Investigation of Textuality through the Resources of Ideational Lexis.

Steiner, Erich, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Translated Texts: Some properties derived from modelling understanding as grammatical de-metaphorisation.

Thomas, Alain, University of Guelph, Canada.
Textual Cohesion, Pauses and hesitations in the speech of advanced FSL students.

Thompson, Geoff, Univertsity of Liverpool.
The Role of Conjunction in Text as Exchange.

Van Mol, Maarten & Mick O'Donnell, Language&Computing nv., Belgium.
Medical Discharge Notices: Relating generic structure to recurring linguistic patterns.

Veltman, Rob, UK.  - WITHDRAWN
On Clarity / Sur la clarté dans le discours.

Webber, Pauline, Italy.
From Spoken Science to Published Research Article:a Comparative Study