Frontmatter -- Editor's Preface -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction / Mey, Jacob / Mey, Jacob -- I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS -- LANGUAGE, THEORY, AND CONDITIONS FOR PRODUCTION / Bang, Jørgen Chr. / Døør, Jørgen -- IS THE SENTENCE A UNIT OF SPEECH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION? / Lindberg, Carl Erik -- ZUM IDEOLOGISCHEN UND WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN BEGRIFF DER ABSTRAKTION / Qvortrup, Lars -- SEMANTICS AND THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND NON-LANGUAGE / Utaker, Arild -- II. TOWARDS A SITUATIONAL LINGUISTICS -- LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF SOCIAL POWER / Blakar, Rolv Mikkel -- RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL CLASS AND LANGUAGE USAGE / Gregersen, Frans -- SOZIALSCHICHTSPEZIFISCHER WORTSCHATZ ALS KOMMUNIKATIONSPROBLEM / Haeberlin, Urs -- III. PATTERNS OF DEVIANCE -- LANGUAGE AND EMOTIONS / Jacobsen, Erling -- PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, INTERACTION, AND PRAGMATIC LINGUISTICS / Olsen, Svend Erik -- THE NEUROLINGUISTIC CONCEPT OF THE ONTOGENESIS AND DISINTEGRATION OF SMOOTH ARTICULATION / Søndergaard, Søren -- IV. GOALS AND PERSPECTIVES -- THE SYNTAX OF TEXTS AND THE SYNTAX OF ACTIONS / Andersen, Peter Bøgh -- THE HOLLOW MEN AND THE PUBLIC SPEECH-ACT / Bjerg, Kresten -- THESEN ZU EINER THEORIE DER BESCHREIBUNG SPRACHLICHER MANIPULATION / Gloy, Klaus -- SOME PREREQUISITES FOR A COMPUTATIONAL PRAGMATICS / Schank, Roger C. -- V. CONCLUSION -- ZUR KRITISCHEN SPRACHTHEORIE / Mey, Jacob -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX