I-VIII -- Chapter 1. Text, discourse and cognition: An introduction -- Chapter 2. Language, discourse, and cognition: Retrospects and prospects -- Chapter 3. On the discourse basis of person agreement -- Chapter 4. The information structure of bilingual meaning: A constructivist approach to Californian Finnish conversation -- Chapter 5. Point of departure: Cognitive aspects of sentence-initial adverbials -- Chapter 6. What is foregrounded in narratives? Hypotheses for the cognitive basis of foregrounding -- Chapter 7. From legal knowledge to legal discourse - and back again -- Chapter 8. Conditionals: Your space or mine? -- Chapter 9. Communicative fragments and the interpretation of discourse -- Chapter 10. Drawing the line: A contested conceptual model in Danish 'child care talk' -- Index