M.A.K. Halliday is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

• Preface1. Appliable linguistic theory: Editor's Introduction2. The spoken language corpus: a foundation for grammatical theory3. Working with meaning: towards an appliable linguistics4. Putting linguistic theory to work5. Reconnecting paths: relation network theory and systemic functional theory as complementary perspectives on language6. On text and discourse, information and meaning7. Why do we need to understand about language8. Applying linguistic theory: Editor's introduction9. Written language, standard language, global language10.The glossy ganoderm: systemic functional linguistics and translation 11. Pinpointing the choice: Meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text12. On matter and meaning: Editor's introduction13. On grammar as the driving force from primary to higher-order conciousness 14. On matter and meaning: the two realms of human experience 15. Mountains of the word: construing the architecture of nature into meaning 16. Language evolving: some systemic functional reflections on the history of meaning Bibliography Index