The General Turnpike Road Act set out the basis for the road network of nineteenth-century England and Wales. With an Appendix of forms and The Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament with respect to Private Road Bills, &c.to, which are added, an index and notes.
The first systematic, corpus-based and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and analysis of multimodal documents. Drawing on academic research and the experience of designers and production teams, Bateman uses linguistically-based analysis to show how different modes of expression together make up a document with a recognisable genre.
