1. Preface (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 2. Introduction (by Dijk, Teun A. van); 3. Text and Discourse Linguistics, Rhetoric and Stylistics (by Enkvist, Nils Erik); 4. Stylistics (by Leech, Geoffrey N.); 5. Rhetoric (by Plett, Heinrich F.); 6. Literary Narratives (by Pavel, Thomas); 7. Poems (by Zholkovsky, A.); 8. Song (by Hodge, Robert); 9. Graffiti (by Blume, Regina); 10. Letters (by Violi, Patrizia); 11. Interpreting Biblical Stories (by Longacre, Robert E.); 12. Myths: Theologies and Theoretical Physics (by Maranda, Pierre); 13. Dramatic Discourse (by Hess-Luttich, Ernest W.B.); 14. On Text Classification (by Dimter, Matthias); 15. Subject Index; 16. Index of Names