The Author's Introduction 1
Acknowledgements 7
The Art of Referring:The Speaker's Use of Noun Phrases to Instruct the Listener(with S.R.Rochester)(1977) 9
How Many Speech Acts?(1981) 35
Conjunction:The Logic of English Text(1983) 58
Theme,Method of Development and Existentiality:the Price of Reply(1992) 131
Reading Positions/Positioning Readers:Judgment in English(1995) 178
Sin and Grace:Naught for Noughts?(2000) 191
Beyond Exchange:Appraisal Systems in English(2000) 203
Factoring out Exchange:Types of Structure(2000) 246
Cohesion and Texture(2001) 270
Fair Trade:Negotiating Meaning in Multimodal Texts(2001) 293
Meaning Beyond the Clause:SFL Perspectives(2002) 317
Sense and Sensibility:Texturing Evaluation(2004) 341
Invoking Attitude:The Play of Graduation in Appraising Discourse(with Susan Hood)(2007) 376
Incongruent and Proud:De-vilifying"Nominalisation"(2008) 401
Index 412