"In this book, Hoey analyses a wide variety of narrative texts: fairy-tales, novels, poems, short stories, jokes; and non-narrative texts: posters, timetables, till receipts. He shows how much these very different text types have in common with each other and argues that, in the interaction between writer and reader, the reader has as much power as the writer." "Textual Interaction is suitable for adoption on text linguistics, applied linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and stylistics courses."--BOOK JACKET.