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功能语篇分析研讨会 发言摘要 Analyzing Richard Nixon’s Discourse in Victory and Downfall WEBSTER, Jonathan (卫真道) In this paper I apply a functional approach to the analysis of US President Nixon’s second inaugural and resignation speeches.? ?My aim is to investigate how patterning in both lexis and grammar projects not only a perspective on text as edifice whose rhetorical structure is based on coherent relations between functionally significant spans of text, but also another perspective on text as tapestry whose texture depends on how cohesive are the threads of discourse.? The speeches mark two very diff