Introduction -- Lexical and dynamic topoi in semantic description: A theoretical and practical differentiation between words and terms -- Does routine formulation change meaning? - The impact of genre on word semantics in the legal domain -- Noun phrases in specialized communication. The cognitive processing of the Danish s-genitive construction -- Semantic roles in expert texts - exemplified by the Patient role in judgments Åse Almlund -- Knowledge, events, and anaphors in texts for specific purposes -- On the structure of legal knowledge : The importance of knowing legal rules for understanding legal texts -- Communicative situations as reflected in text structure. On legal text production and background knowledge -- Transfer of knowledge in cross-cultural discourse -- Argumentation and knowledge - An empirical study on inference-making in expert and novice reasoning -- Knowledge representation in the domain of economics -- On judging quantities in text without expert knowledge -- Risk portrayal and risk appreciation as a problem in language use -- Appendix: The TV judgment -- List of contributors -- Subject index.