Selected theoretical papers from the 9th International Systemic Workshop

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