such as adjacency pairs (e.g. offer followed by acceptance), parallelism, theme-rheme development and given-new information.16 whereas TEXTURE concerns the cohesive properties of smaller linguistic units (i.e. microstructures), STRUCTURE refers to larger linguistic units (i.e. macrostructures) such as genre (or register) and text-types. Structure ‘allows us to distinguish between complete and incomplete texts on the one hand, and between different generic forms on the other’.17 The notion of structure