1. Language power (by Smith, Bill Dotson); 2. Part I. Discourse and Power; 3. Introduction (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 4. Resource power and autonomy through discourse in conflict: A Finnish migrant school strike in Sweden (by Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove); 5. The white discursive order: the British New Right's discourse on cultural racism with particular reference to the Salisbury Review (by Seidel, Gill); 6. The intervention of the media in the reproduction of power (by Fowler, Roger); 7. Elite discourse and racism (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 8. Part II. Approaches to the Poetics of the Lyric; 9. Introduction (by Diaz-Diocaretz, Myriam); 10. The manuscript and its interpreters: notes on the 'omniscient reader' of the poetics of the lyric (by Zavala, Iris M.); 11. The personal pragmatic institutions of poetic discourse (by Grubel, Rainer); 12. Semantics and phonetics in Montale (by Alinei, Mario); 13. Modernist poetry?: On the interference of genre and group code: the case of T.S. Eliot (by Fokkema, Douwe W.); 14. Part III. Language and Madness: Madness in Language; 15. Introduction (by Sonne, Harly); 16. The discourse of psychosis and the process of listening (by Rosenbaum, Bent); 17. The symbolic father (by Mooij, Antoine); 18. Literacure: Madness and literature; psychiatry & criticism (by Sonne, Harly); 19. Index