Frontmatter -- Contents -- Grammar of genres and styles: an overview -- Text types, audience and thematic organisation in the recent history of English -- Reference chains and genre identification -- Taking into account coherence relations to describe a textual genre: methodology and application to the discourse of tourist attraction guides -- Linguistic features of genre and method variation in translation: a computational perspective -- Approaching French theatrical characters by syntactical analysis: a study with motifs and correspondence analysis -- Towards a topological grammar of genres and styles: a way to combine paradigmatic quantitative analysis with a syntagmatic approach -- The balance between quantitative and qualitative literary stylistics: how the method of "motifs" can help -- Live TV sports commentaries: specific syntactic structures and general constraints -- Bursts of written language as performance units for the description of genre routines -- Index