This volume, based on papers delivered at the 7th International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts.

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. Meaning as work: Individuals, society and the production of representational resources (by Kress, Gunther); 4. I Written Genres; 5. Resonance in text (by Thompson, Geoff); 6. Conditional expressions: Meanings and realizations in two genres (by Bloor, Thomas); 7. Pragmatic, stylistic and grammatical limitations on choice: A study of cause-effect signalling in English (by Jordan, Michael P.); 8. Functional variations in NG premodifiers in written English (by Lopez-Folgado, Vicente); 9. Information progression strategies in administrative forms: A cross-linguistic study (by Downing, Angela); 10. Interpersonal choices in academic work (by Ventola, Eija); 11. The consequences of choice: Discursive positioning in an art institution (by Ravelli, Louise J.); 12. Lexical and grammatical choices in innovative language use in computer science (by Bloor, Meriel); 13. Scientific discourse as interaction: Scientific articles vs. popularizations (by Garces-Conejos, Pilar); 14. Rhetorical relations and subordination in L2 writing (by Pelsmaekers, Katja); 15. II Spoken Genres; 16. Quality choice and quality control (by Tucker, Gordon H.); 17. Modality in the therapeutic dialogue (by Chambon, Adrienne); 18. The conversational dynamics of interactional dispute in conflictive calls for emergency assistance: A single case study (by Perez-Gonzalez, Luis); 19. Friends or strangers: Only their phases show for sure (by Malcolm, Karen); 20. Lars Porsena and my bonk manager: A systemic-functional study in the semogenesis of the language of swearing (by Veltman, Robert); 21. Intonation choices in the English of non-native speakers: An exploratory study (by Hewings, Martin); 22. Index of subjects; 23. Index of names