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Miller  \nQuaderni del CeSLiC  \nSeries: Functional Grammar Studies for Non-Native Speakers of English  \nSeries Editor Donna R. Miller  \nCeSLiC  \nCentro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali ricerca – prassi – formazione [http://www.lilec.it/ceslic](http://www.lilec.it/ceslic)  \nTable of Contents  \nForeword of Series Editor/Author to the first edition (2004) ix  \nForeword of Series Editor/Author to the second edition (2017) xiii  \nList of Acronyms xviii  \nList of Figures and Tables xviii  \nAcknowledgements xix  \nPART I  \nAbout and Around Register Theory and Practice  \n1. Reviewing, refining and topping-up some fundamental SFL  \nnotions 1  \n1.1 Why SFL? 1  \n1.2 What is a text? 5  \nIncluding:  \nTIME OUT: the notion of ‘choice’ 6  \nTIME OUT: realization vs. instantiation 9  \n1.3 The Context of Situation revisited 11  \n2. The notion of REGISTER, or, language variation according  \nto use, and related issues 14  \n2.1 Zooming in on register 15  \n2.1.1 The special case of verbal art 20  \n2.1.2 Closed vs. open registers 21  \nIncluding:  \nTIME OUT: the role of language as action or reflection 22  \nTIME OUT: register overlap 33  \n2.2 Register and… 35  \n2.2.1 Register vs. dialect 35  \n2.2.2 Register vs. genre 38  \n2.2.3 Register, and the corpus 43  \n2.2.4 Register, and translation 46  \n2.3 More matters surrounding register 47  \n2.3.1 Intertextuality 47  \n2.3.1.1 Contratextuality 53  \n2.3.1.2 Bakhtin’s heteroglossia 55  \n2.3.2 Jakobson and rhetorical aim 57  \n2.3.2.1 Grammatical parallelism 65  \n2.3.3 Coding Orientations 79  \n2.4 The Process of Text Creation recalled  \nand parting thoughts 91  \nExercises on PartI, with Key 96  \nPART II  \nFrom theory to practice  \nWorking Top-Down 105  \n1. 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