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Frontmatter -- Preface / Klein, Jürgen / Vandeibeke, Dirk -- Contents -- SECTION I: LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND -- Introduction / Broich, Ulrich -- Eighteenth-Century Culture: Questions of Textuality / Suerbaum, Ulrich -- Popular Political Culture in the Mid 1790s / Barrell, John -- Hogarths Industry and Idleness: Representing the Criminal / Bell, Ian A. -- A Woman Under the Influence. Women, Crime and Punishment in 18th-Century England / Bettinger, Elfi -- To Make Sense of the Senseless The Representation of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England / Hellmuth, Eckhart -- Pamphlets in the Seven Years War: More Change Than Continuity ? / Wellenreuther, Hermann -- The wilderness pleases - But why not in the novel? / Wolf, Werner -- Conflicting Definitions of the Culture of Sensibility / Gobel, Walter -- City Vice: New Urban Myths in Eighteenth-Century England / Stratmann, Gerd -- SECTION II: FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR -- Introduction / Steiner, Erich / Weise, Günter -- The Function of Role Types in Unmarked Theme- Rheme Structures / Carls, Uwe -- Supplementive Adjective Clauses in English / Erdmann, Peter -- Functional Grammar and the Analysis of English / Mackenzie, J. Lachlan -- A Functional Approach to Modality / Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie -- Systemic Functional Linguistics - A Chomsky-Theory or a Mead-Theory? / Steiner, Erich -- Theme in translation: some considerations / Ventola, Eija -- Functional-Semantic Fields / Weise, Günter -- SECTION III: SOCIETY, GENRE, AND LANGUAGE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND -- Introduction / Diller, Hans-Jürgen -- Genres, Texts and Corpora in the Study of Medieval English / Rissanen, Matti -- William Caxtons Dialogues in French and English as a Source of Information about Social Reality / Hüllen, Werner -- Dream Theory and Dream Lexis in the Middle Ages / Fischer, Andreas -- Chaucers Prose in the Canterbury Tales as Parody / Markus, Manfred -- Morphological Reclassification: The Morphological and Morphophonemic Restructuring of the Weak Verbs in Old and Middle English / Kastovsky, Dieter -- Bishops Courts as Cultural Centres: The Case of the Harley Lyrics / Busse, Wilhelm G. -- Wycliffite Sermons: A Critical Commentary on Late 14th-Century England / Volk-Birke, Sabine -- The Late Middle English Paston Letters / Schaefer, Ursula -- SECTION IV: SOUTH AFRICA -- Introduction / Reckwitz, Erhard -- South African Literary History - The Black and the White Perspective / Coetzee, Ampie -- Literature for a National Culture in South Africa: Perspectives of Oppressed Groups / Mzamane, Mbulelo Vizikhungo -- From Vasco da Gamas Astrolabe to John Barrows Artificial Horizon: The Cape Colony and Cartographical Momentum / Bialas, Zbigniew -- Transitional Identity: Autobiography in South Africa / Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina -- Cultural Politics in Eskia Mphahleles Works / Schulte, Bernd -- Literature and Civil Society in South Africa / Schulze-Engler, Frank -- Spatial Symbolism in Nadine Gordimers None to Accompany Me / Goetsch, Paul -- English - The Language of a New Nation The Present-Day Linguistic Situation of South Africa / Görlach, Manfred -- SECTION V: VARIA -- Workshop: Teaching Utopian Fiction - A Contribution to Cultural Studies / Achilles, Jochen / Böker, Uwe / Borgmeier, Raimund / Pesch, Josef / Schnackertz, Hermann Josef -- Subjective Theories of Second Language Acquisition / Edmondson, Willis -- A Text-Based Approach to the Study of English Punctuation / Bergien, Angelika -- English Literature in Germany - German Literature in England: An Analysis of a Lopsided Bicultural Exchange / Rosenberg, Ingrid von -- Food in English Literature / Ross, Bianca -- Being True to the Story: Myth, Identity, and Art in Momadays The Ancient Child / Weckermann, Hans-Jürgen