Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Preface -- 2. A history of text types: A componential -- analysis -- 3. Text types and the linguistic history of modern -- English -- 4. Text types and language history: The cooking -- recipe -- 5. Alinguistic history of advertising -- 6. The church hymn -- 7. Lexical entries -- 8. Linguistic aspects of jokes -- 9. Text types and the history of Scots -- 10. Text types and Indian English -- 11. Facsimiles -- Backmatter