Preface
A Timeless Journey: On the Past and Future
of Present Knowledge
Section 1 Some Language-Society Relations
Language and Society in a SystemicFunctional Perspective
Code, Register and Social Dialect
What Kind of Resource Is Language?
Section 2 Learning and Teaching: 'Socio/Linguistic
Aspects
The Ontogenesis of Ideology: AnInterpretation of
MotherChild Talk
Questions as a Mode of Learning inEveryday Talk
Reading Picture Reading: A Study inIdeology and Inference
Semiotic Mediation and Mental Developmentin Pluralistic
Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling

Preface
A Timeless Journey: On the Past and Future
      of Present Knowledge
Section 1  Some Language-Society Relations
     Language and Society in a SystemicFunctional Perspective
     Code, Register and Social Dialect
     What Kind of Resource Is Language?
Section 2  Learning and Teaching: 'Socio/Linguistic
     Aspects
     The Ontogenesis of Ideology: AnInterpretation of
           MotherChild Talk
     Questions as a Mode of Learning inEveryday Talk
     Reading Picture Reading: A Study inIdeology and Inference
     Semiotic Mediation and Mental Developmentin Pluralistic
          Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling
Section 3  Construing Text in Context
     What's Going On: A Dynamic View of Contextin Language
     Text in the Systemic-FunctionalModel
     The Nursery Tale as a Genre
     Coherence and Cohesive Harmony
Section 4  Verbal Art in Systemic Functional Linguistics
     Rime and Reason in Literature
     Private Pleasure, Public Discourse:Reflections on
          Engaging with Literature
     The Analysis of One Poem: TheoreticalIssues in Practice
List of Publications