Preface
A Timeless Journey： On the Past and Future
of Present Knowledge
Section 1 Some Language-Society Relations
Language and Society in a Systemic Functional Perspective
Code, Register and Social Dialect
What Kind of Resource Is Language?
Section 2 Learning and Teaching： 'Socio/Linguistic
Aspects
The Ontogenesis of Ideology： An Interpretation of
Mother Child Talk
Questions as a Mode of Learning in Everyday Talk
Reading Picture Reading： A Study in Ideology and Inference
Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic
Societies： Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling
Section 3 Construing Text in Context
What's Going On： A Dynamic View of Context in Language
Text in the Systemic-Functional Model
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： Theoretical Issues in Practice
List of Publications
