DISCOURSE AND WORD ORDER -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- PART ONE. A MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. FOUR SETS OF KNOWLEDGE IN CONTACT -- 0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse -- 1. Communicable Knowledge -- 1.1 Seven kinds of knowledge -- 1.2 The relationship between different kinds of knowledge -- 2. Sharing Knowledge -- 3. Two Individuals in Discourse -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER TWO. THE PROCEDURES FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTIONS -- 0. Constraining Subjectivity -- 1. Assessment and Acknowledgment -- 1.1 Assessment -- 1.2. Acknowledgment -- 2. Misassessment -- 2.1. Assessment errors and adjustment -- 2.2. Imposition and acceptance -- 2.3. Assessment and context -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER THREE. DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES -- 0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts, and Utterances -- 1. Directives -- 2. Statements -- 2.1 Propositional statements -- 2.2 Specificational statemenss -- 2.4 Predicational statemenss -- 2.5 Referential statemenss -- 2.6 Metinformaiionls statements -- 2.7 Summary of statements -- 3. Effusions -- 3.1 Impositional effusions -- 3.2 Non-impositional effusions -- 3.3 Summary of effusions -- 4. Questions -- 4.1 Specificational quesiions -- 4.2 Propositional questioss -- 4.3 Referential quesiions -- 4.4 Existential quesiions -- 4.5 Predicational quesiions -- 4.6 Metinformational questions -- 4.7 Summary of questions -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER FOUR. NON-DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES -- 0. Responses -- 1. Obligatory Responses -- 1.1 Answert to questions -- 1.2 Acknowledgment -- 1.3 Adjustment -- 2. Voluntary Contributions -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER FIVE. GRAMMAR AND PRAGMATICS -- 1. The Model: a Summary -- 2. Between grammar and pragmatics -- 2.1 Deaccentuation of nouns -- 2.2 Compatibility of indefinite subjects and stative predicates.

3. Communicational Competence -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 5 -- PART TWO. RUSSIAN WORD ORDER -- CHAPTER SIX. HISTORY AND PRELIMINARIES -- 1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory -- 2. Russian Intonation and Word Order -- 2.1 The problem -- 2.2. An outline of Russian intonation -- 2.2.1 Utterance intonation "Type I" -- 2.2.2 Utterance intonation "Type II" -- 2.2.3 Intonation types and word order -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES - I: ASSESSMENT -- 1. Directives -- 1.1 First person direciives -- 1.2 Second person direciives -- 1.3 Third person direciives -- 2. Statements -- 2.1 Propositional statements -- 2.2 Referential statements and statements about the CODE -- 2.3 Existential and predicational statements -- 3. Questions -- 3.1 Specificational quesiions -- 3.2 Propositional questioss -- 3.3 Rererential and CODE questions -- 3.4 Existential and predicaiional questioss -- 4. Effusions -- 5. Summary -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER EIGHT DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES - II: IMPOSITION AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS -- 1. Imposition -- 1.1 Personal Empathy: Imposition of referential knowledge -- 1.2 Imposition of propositional knowledge -- 2. Grammatical Relations -- 2.1 Tee terms: their semantic roles, case, and animacy -- 2.1.1 Unspecified propositionls statements -- 2.1.2 Multiple questions -- 2.1.3 Pronominal sequences -- 2.2 The preverbal position -- 2.2.1 Imposition of anthropological Empathy ? -- 2.2.2 Epic style or a different system? -- 2.3 Non-rererential items -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER NINE. NON-DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES -- 1. Answers to Questions -- 1.1 Specificational answess -- 1.2 Propositional answers -- 2. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Identity -- 2.1 Statements -- 2.2 Questions -- 3. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Associated Knowledge -- 3.1 Statements -- 3.2 Questions.

4. Summary -- NOTES TO CHAPTER 9 -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- NAME INDEX.