Part I -- Discourse strategies and discourse types -- Text production and dynamic text semantics -- Towards probabilistic interpretations -- A functional model of the system of sentence structures -- Constraining the deployment of lexicogrammatical resources during text generation: Towards a computational instantiation of register theory -- A treatment of raising and control in systemic grammar -- The concept of rank in systemic linguistics -- Part II -- Information flow in English conversation: A new approach to the Given - New distinction -- Minimal exchanges in English discourse -- The interpenetration of language as code and language as behavior: A description of evaluative statements -- The static and dynamic choices of responding: Toward the process of building social reality by the developmentally disordered -- First- and second-order registers in education -- Part III -- Functional theory, scientism, and altruism: A critique of functional linguistics and its applications to writing -- Grammar, technocracy, and the noun: Technocratic values and cognitive linguistics -- Nominalization in science and humanities: Distilling knowledge and scaffolding text -- From clinical report to clinical story: Two ways of writing about a medical case -- Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts -- Another perspective on coherence and cohesive harmony -- Cohesion coherence: Scientific texts -- The use of systemic linguistics to describe student summaries at university level -- Non-native writing and native revising of scientific articles -- Index.