Table of Contents

Systemic Background. Meaning, Context and Text: Fifty Years After Malinowski
A Demonstration of the Nigel Text Generation Computer Program
An Introduction to the Nigel Text Generation Grammar
The Systemic Framework in Text Generation: Nigel
Towards Communication' Linguistics: A Framework
Explanation in English and Korafe
How to Recognize Systems
Working with Transitivity: System Networks in Semantic-Grammatical Descriptions
Comparison and Intensification: An Ideal but Problematic Domain for Systemic-Functional Theory
Discourse Systems and Structures and Their Place Within an Overall Systemic Model
On Types of Meaningfulness in Discourse
Process and Text: Two Aspects of Human Semiosis
Ideology, Intertextuality, and the Notion of Register
How Does a Story Mean What It Does?
A Partial Answer
Non-Thematic Re-Entry: An Introduction to and Extension of the System of Nominal Group Reference
Substitution in Everyday English Use
Rest' and Open Transition' in the Systemic Phonology of English
A Systemic Phonology of Isthmus Zapotec Prosodies
On the Signalling of Complete Thoughts
Author Index
Subject Index