Table of contents Describing languages, understanding language: Systemic Functional theory and description Y.J. Doran and J.R. Martin Part I: Understanding grammar Axial argumentation below the clause: The verbal group in Khorchin Mongolian Dongbing Zhang Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in interpersonal grammar: A case study of Classical Tibetan mood Pin Wang Experiential cryptotypes: reasoning about process type Beatriz Quiroz Axial argumentation and cryptogrammar in textual grammar: theme in Brazilian Portuguese Giacomo Figueredo Arguments for seeing Theme-Rheme and Topic-Comment as separate functional structures Randy J. LaPolla Part II: Contextualising grammar Functional language typology: A discourse semantic perspective J.R. Martin and Beatriz Quiroz Construing relations between scientific activities through Mandarin Chinese Jing Hao The Baboon and the Bee: Exploring register patterns across languages David Rose Language shift: Bilingual exchange structure in classroom interactions Harni Kartika Ningsih Academic formalisms: Toward a semiotic typology Y.

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