Acknowledgements -- Linguistic and Text-theoretical Research on Languages for Special Purposes. A thematic and bibliographical guide -- The Sociocultural Dimension: The Dilemma of the German-speaking Scholar -- The Symbolic Mode and Secondary Constitution of Meaning. Cultural Semiotic Comments on an Advertisement of the German WWF -- Communication in Literary Studies as LSP -- Contrastive Text Linguistics in LSP-Research: Theoretical Considerations and some Preliminary Findings -- Functional Macro-Analysis of Specialist Text Forms - A Research-method Derived from Foreign Language Teaching -- Texts and Text Types in LSP -- LSP-Research, Philosophy of Science, and the Question-Theoretical Approach - some Tentative Suggestions -- The Fiction in Science Writing -- Corpus Selection in LSP Research -- Some Considerations on the Relations between Text Linguistics and the Study of Texts for Specific Purposes -- A Theory of Text Production, Modification, Reception -- Lexical Knowledge and Text Interpretation -- Communicative Acts and the Constitution of Scientific and Technical Texts -- Summaries -- List of Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index.