Welcoming remarks | p. 1 |
Presentation of the Dean's Medal to Kenneth L. Pike | p. 4 |
M.A.K. Halliday: An introduction | p. 6 |
The act of meaning | p. 7 |
Dell Hymes: An introduction | p. 22 |
Inequality in language: Taking for granted | p. 23 |
Language transfer and levels of meaning potential in Malaysian English | p. 41 |
Meaning, means, and maintenance | p. 56 |
Contested conventions in writing about the law | p. 66 |
Register or relevance?: Seventh graders write arguments for a mock trial | p. 70 |
Contexts for meaning | p. 79 |
Language, communication, social meaning, and social change: The challenge for teachers | p. 104 |
Social meaning in language curriculum, of language curriculum, and through language curriculum | p. 117 |
How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French | p. 135 |
Content language learning: Symbiosis in the academe | p. 147 |
A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part I: Theoretical and methodological considerations | p. 158 |
A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part II: Insights from discourse analysis | p. 166 |
Proficiency and accuracy: Enemies or allies? | p. 174 |
Internationalization of the university: Where are the foreign languages? | p. 179 |
English in Europe: Language pragmatics or language policy | p. 199 |
French immersion graduates at university and beyond: What difference has it made? | p. 208 |
EAP oral communication curriculum: Spoken discourse, meaning, and communicative 'pronunciation' | p. 241 |
Teaching language and culture: A view from the schools | p. 259 |
Principles and parameters in language and society | p. 275 |
Ethnolinguistic democracy: Varieties, degrees, and limits | p. 286 |
A brief update on my interest in relating language to philosophy | p. 298 |
Communication, community,and the problem of appropriate use | p. 305 |
Discourse community and the evaluation of written text | p. 316 |
Second culture acquisition: A tentative step in determining hierarchies | p. 324 |
Information flow in written advertising | p. 336 |
When and how old age is relevant in discourse of the elderly: A case study of Georgia O'Keeffe | p. 353 |
Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts | p. 378 |
Formulaic opposition markers in Chinese conflict talk | p. 388 |
Sociocultural parameters of intelligibility | p. 403 |
Some new evidence for an old hypothesis | p. 413 |
Social meanings for how we teach | p. 428 |
Communication with second language learners: What does it reveal about the social and linguistic processes of second language learning? | p. 435 |
The dialogic emergence of culture in the language classroom | p. 465 |
Metaphorical competence in second language acquisition and second language teaching: The neglected dimension | p. 489 |
Perspectives on communicative language teaching: Syllabus design and methodology | p. 501 |
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