Robin P. Fawcett is a Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.M.A.K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Sydney Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas, USA.Adam Makkai is Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

• List of FiguresList of TablesForewordIntroduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday2 Metaphors of Information John Regan3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya HasanIndex

Robin P. Fawcett is a Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.M.A.K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Sydney Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas, USA.Adam Makkai is Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

• List of FiguresList of TablesForewordIntroduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday2 Metaphors of Information John Regan3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya HasanIndex

Robin P. Fawcett is a Research Professor in Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Unit at the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.M.A.K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Sydney Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas, USA.Adam Makkai is Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

• List of FiguresList of TablesForewordIntroduction Robin P. Fawcett, M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney M. Lamb and Adam Makkai1 Language as Code and Language as Behaviour: A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue M.A.K. Halliday2 Metaphors of Information John Regan3 How Universal is a Localist Hypothesis? A Linguistic Contribution to the Study of 'Semantic Styles' of Language Yoshihiko Ikegami4 Some Speculations on Language Contact in a Wider Setting Jeffrey Ellis5 Ways of Saying: Ways of Meaning Ruqaiya HasanIndex