Martin (1992: 455):
The pattern of interaction in [6:23] is outlined below, listing the text's News, hyper-New and macro-New. The News of the introduction are listed (in plain face) but do not participate in this pattern; they participate instead in the complementary function of predicting the text's method of development reviewed above.
Blogger Comment:
To be clear, on this model, information that is presented by the writer as New to the reader in the introduction (Martin's macro-Theme) does not participate in the 'accumulation of New information'.
