| Welcoming remarks | 1 |
| Presentation of the Dean's Medal to Kenneth L. Pike | 4 |
| M.A.K. Halliday: An introduction | 6 |
| The act of meaning | 7 |
| Dell Hymes: An introduction | 22 |
| Inequality in language: Taking for granted | 23 |
| Language transfer and levels of meaning potential in Malaysian English | 41 |
| Meaning, means, and maintenance | 56 |
| Contested conventions in writing about the law | 66 |
| Register or relevance?: Seventh graders write arguments for a mock trial | 70 |
| Contexts for meaning | 79 |
| Language, communication, social meaning, and social change: The challenge for teachers | 104 |
| Social meaning in language curriculum, of language curriculum, and through language curriculum | 117 |
| How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French | 135 |
| Content language learning: Symbiosis in the academe | 147 |
| A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part I: Theoretical and methodological considerations | 158 |
| A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part II: Insights from discourse analysis | 166 |
| Proficiency and accuracy: Enemies or allies? | 174 |
| Internationalization of the university: Where are the foreign languages? | 179 |
| English in Europe: Language pragmatics or language policy | 199 |
| French immersion graduates at university and beyond: What difference has it made? | 208 |
| EAP oral communication curriculum: Spoken discourse, meaning, and communicative 'pronunciation' | 241 |
| Teaching language and culture: A view from the schools | 259 |
| Principles and parameters in language and society | 275 |
| Ethnolinguistic democracy: Varieties, degrees, and limits | 286 |
| A brief update on my interest in relating language to philosophy | 298 |
| Communication, community,and the problem of appropriate use | 305 |
| Discourse community and the evaluation of written text | 316 |
| Second culture acquisition: A tentative step in determining hierarchies | 324 |
| Information flow in written advertising | 336 |
| When and how old age is relevant in discourse of the elderly: A case study of Georgia O'Keeffe | 353 |
| Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts | 378 |
| Formulaic opposition markers in Chinese conflict talk | 388 |
| Sociocultural parameters of intelligibility | 403 |
| Some new evidence for an old hypothesis | 413 |
| Social meanings for how we teach | 428 |
| Communication with second language learners: What does it reveal about the social and linguistic processes of second language learning? | 435 |
| The dialogic emergence of culture in the language classroom | 465 |
| Metaphorical competence in second language acquisition and second language teaching: The neglected dimension | 489 |
| Perspectives on communicative language teaching: Syllabus design and methodology | 501 |
