Table of Contents

1. Volume I; 2. Contributors; 3. Introduction (by Steele, Ross); 4. Comprehensive bibliography of books and articles (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 5. 1. Starting Points; 6. Sentence patterns and predicate classes (by Danes, Frantisek); 7. On two starting points of communication (by Firbas, Jan); 8. The position of Czech linguistics in theme-focus research (by Sgall, Petr); 9. J.R. Firth in retrospect: a view from the eighties (by Henderson, Eugenie J.A.); 10. Daniel Jones' "classical" model of pronunciation training: an applied linguistic revaluation (by Trim, John L.M.); 11. The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching revisited (by Strevens, Peter); 12. 2. Language Development; 13. "Don't you get bored speaking only English?": Expressions of metalinguistic awareness in a bilingual child (by Clyne, Michael); 14. Toward practical theory: Halliday applied (by Harste, Jerome C.); 15. Development of referential cohesion in a child's monologues (by Nelson, Katherine); 16. Exploring the textual properties of "proto-reading" (by Pappas, Christine C.); 17. Before speaking: across cultures (by Regan, John); 18. Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant's meaning (by Trevarthen, Colwyn); 19. The development of conversation (by Wells, Gordon); 20. 3. Sign, Context and Change; 21. Today (by Pike, Kenneth L.); 22. For Michael Halliday: in hoc signo vinces: sign design (by Sebeok, Thomas A.); 23. George Herbert's Love III and its many mansions (by Handscombe, R.J.); 24. The past and prejudice: toward de-mythologizing the English canon (by Kachru, Braj B.); 25. Writing systems and language change in English (by McIntosh, Angus); 26. On the major diseases of linguistics with some suggested cures and antidotes (by Makkai, Adam); 27. "Breaking the Seal of Time": the pragmatics of poetics (by Mey, Jacob L.); 28. The use of systemic linguistics in translation analysis and criticism (by Newmark, Peter); 29. Le graphemique et l'iconique dans le message (by Pottier, Bernard); 30. Order and entropy in natural language (by Schiller, Andrew); 31. Sign and signifex (by Watt, W.C.); 32. The practice and theory of translation (by Yallop, Colin); 33. 4. Language Around the World; 34. Grammatical relations, semantic roles and topic-comment structure in a New Guinea Highland language: Harway (by Comrie, Bernard); 35. Toward a bilingual dictionary of idioms: Hindi-English (by Kachru, Yamuna); 36. Mind your language: conscious and unconscious structuring in Swahili (by Maw, Joan); 37. Communicative functions of particles in Singapore English (by Platt, John); 38. Place-name study in Japan (by Shibata, Seiji); 39. Teaching English as a second language in India: focus on objectives (by Verma, Shivendra K.); 40. The impersonal verb construction in Australian languages (by Walsh, Michael); 41. Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands (by Wurm, Stephen A.); 42. References; 43. Volume II; 44. Contributors; 45. 1. The Design of Language; 46. Reproductive furniture and extinguished professors (by Aitchison, Jean); 47. English intensifiers and their idiosyncrasies (by Allerton, David J.); 48. The tradition of structural analogy (by Anderson, John A.); 49. Syspro: a computerized method for writing system networks and deriving selection expressions (by Cummings, Michael J.); 50. Cultural, situational and modal labels in dictionaries of English (by Delbridge, Arthur); 51. Morphological islands: constraint or preference? (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 52. Some "dia-categories" (by Ellis, Jeffrey O.); 53. English quantifiers from noun sources (by Lehrer, Adrienne); 54. Two types of semantic widening and their relation to metaphor (by Levin, Samuel R.); 55. The indefinite article and the numeral one (by Thorne, James P.); 56. 2. Text and Discourse; 57. A comparison of process types in Poe and Melville (by Benson, James D.); 58. Intonation and the grammar of speech (by Brazil, David); 59. Some preliminary evidence for phonetic adjustment strategies in communication difficulty (by Clark, John E.); 60. Evaluative text analysis (by Coulthard, Malcolm); 61. Gobbledegook: the tyranny of linguistic conceits (by Eagleson, Robert D.); 62. Text strategies: single, dual, multiple (by Enkvist, Nils Erik); 63. Finishing other's talk: some structural and pragmatic features of completion offers (by Grimshaw, Allen D.); 64. The textual basis of verbal inflections: the case of Yatzachi Zapotec (by Mock, Carol C.); 65. On the concepts of "style" and "register" in sociolinguistics (by Peng, Fred C.C.); 66. Social constraints on grammatical variables: tense choice in English (by Plum, Guenther); 67. Some phonological constraints on grammatical formations: examples from four languages (by Robins, Robert H.); 68. Collocation: a progress report (by Sinclair, John McH.); 69. Linguistic analysis of real estate commission agreements in a civil law suit (by Shuy, Roger W.); 70. Antithesis: a study in clause combining and discourse structure (by Thompson, Sandra A.); 71. 3. Exploring Language as Social Semiotic; 72. The hegemony of information (by Bailey, Richard W.); 73. Many sentences and difficult texts (by Blanton, Mackie J.-V.); 74. Explaining moments of conflict in discourse (by Candlin, Christopher N.); 75. Is there a literary language? (by Carter, Ronald); 76. Coherence in language and culture (by Colby, Benjamin N.); 77. Semiotics of document design (by Eiler, Mary Ann); 78. Notes on critical linguistics (by Fowler, Roger); 79. Grammar, society and the pronoun (by Hudson, Richard A.); 80. The structure of situations and the analysis of text (by Mohan, Bernard A.); 81. The place of socio-semiotics in contemporary thought (by McKellar, Gordon Bruce); 82. Changing the subject (by Threadgold, Terry); 83. 4. An Interview with Michael Halliday (by Thibault, Paul J.); 84. References