Section 1 Some Language-Society Relations 1
Language and Society in a Systemic Functional Perspective 3
Code,Register and Social Dialect 34
What Kind of Resource Is Language? 76
Section 2 Learning and Teaching:Socio/Linguistic Aspects 107
The Ontogenesis of Ideology:An Interpretation of Mother Child Talk 109
Questions as a Mode of Learning in Everyday Talk 132
Reading Picture Reading:A Study in Ideology and Inference 178
Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies:Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling 213
Section 3 Construing Text in Context 241
What's Going On:A Dynamic View of Context in Language 243
Text in the Systemic-Functional Model 261
The Nursery Tale as a Genre 284
Coherence and Cohesive Harmony 319
Section 4 Verbal Art in Systemic Functional Linguistics 361
Rime and Reason in Literature 363
Private Pleasure,Public Discourse:Reflections on Engaging with Literature 398
The Analysis of One Poem:Theoretical Issues in Practice 427
List of Publications 464