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