Craig,

I was truly startled by your latest message. Your view of the world of
discourse, the thesis, and the connection between text and grammar is one
that many of us have been working with since the late sixties. The basis of
this work is James Kinneavy's book, A Theory of Discourse.

Of course, our view of the connection between text and grammar is likely
not as sophisticated as yours, for we are attempting to teach this material
to students, who are not able to do much with grammar.

For a textbook that makes the connection and uses approximately the same
categories of text types as yours, see Writing in the Liberal Arts
Tradition, by Kinneavy, McCleary, and Nakadate, 2nd edition, Harper & Row,
1990. It's old but still in print.

Bill


  Certainly that there is no decent text making the
>connections between grammar and whole text discourse is a position worth
>taking seriously. My own approach borrows and steals from SFG, but draws
>from many other sources as well. I am trying to fill a need.

>Craig
>


William J. McCleary
Livonia, NY

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