Introduction Comprehensive and the Given-New Contract Creativity in Verbalization and Its Implications for the Nature of Stored Knowledge Semantic Processing Units in Understanding Text Toward a Functional Theory of Discourse Talk, Talk, Talk: A Selective Critical Review of Theories of Speech Production EMPIRICAL ORIENTATIONS SOCIO- LINGUISTIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EMPHASES Style Variables in Referential Language: A Study of Social Class Difference and Its Effect on Dyadic Communication Variations in Young Children's Use of Language: Some Effects of Setting and Dialect Prose Processing from a Psychosocial Perspective PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EMPHASES Articles, Quantifiers, and Their Encoding in Textual Comprehension A Move Toward a Psychology of Conversation Children's Illocutionary Acts APPLIED EMPHASIS The Art of Referring: The Speaker's Use of Noun Phrases to Instruct the Listener Verbal TeachingPatterns Under Simulated Teaching Conditions What Is Remembered from Prose: A Function of Passage Structure Author Index Subject Index