Table of Contents

Introduction
Generic and Register Qualities of Texts and Their Realization
Opinion Texts in Conversation
Patterns of Information in Initial Position in English
Generic Expectancies and Discoursal Surprises: John Donne's The Good Morrow
Intertextuality and Text Semantics
The Social Production of Language: History and Structures of Domination
Knowledge and Laughter: An Approach to a Socio-Cognitive Linguistics
A Systemic-Functional Semiotics of Art
The Conception of Contexts in Text
Bibliography
Subject Index