Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Ballmer, Th. T. -- Part I. Procedural Linguistics -- Strategic Discourse Comprehension / Dijk, T. A. van -- Referential Nets as Knowledge Structures / Habel, C. U. -- Procedural Grammar for a Fragment of Black English Discourse / Eikmeyer, H. -J. / Rieser, H. -- Part II. Quantitative and Algebraic Dynamics -- On the Dynamic Approach to Language / Altmann, G. -- Text as a Unit and Co-References / Hrebicek, L. -- An Algebraic Approach to Discourses and their Goals / Nowakowska, M. -- Part III. Language Change -- Towards a Theory of Linguistic Change / Keller, R. -- Rules and the Dynamics of Language / Strecker, B. -- Not by Nature nor by Intention: The Normative Power of Language Signs / Heringer, H. J. -- Part IV. Morphogenetic Linguistics -- Tension and Suspense: On the Biogenesis and the Semiogenesis of the Detective Novel, Soccer and Art / Koch, W. A. -- The Psychology of Context Change / Ballmer, Th. T. -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter