Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On the "architecture" of human language -- PART ONE: THE PLACE OF LINGUISTICS AS A DISCIPLINE -- Editor's introduction -- 1 Syntax and the consumer (1964) -- 2 Grammar, society and the noun (1966) -- 3 The context of linguistics (1975) -- 4 Ideas about language (1977) -- 5 Language and the order of nature (1987) -- 6 New ways of meaning: the challenge to applied linguistics (1990) -- PART TWO: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE -- Editor's introduction -- 7 A brief sketch of systemic grammar (1969) -- 8 Systemic background (1985) -- 9 Systemic grammar and the concept of a "science of language" (1992) -- 10 Language in a changing world (1993) -- 11 A recent view of "missteps" in linguistic theory (1995) -- 12 Linguistics as metaphor (1997) -- 13 Is the grammar neutral? Is the grammarian neutral? (2001) -- PART THREE: LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL SEMIOTIC -- Editor's introduction -- 14 The functional basis of language (1973) -- 15 Towards a sociological semantics (1972) -- 16 The history of a sentence (1992) -- 17 The act of meaning (1992) -- 18 On language in relation to the evolution of human consciousness (1995) -- Appendix: Systemic theory (1994) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.