ABSTRACT

Part I discussed how the producer and interpreter, in the process of discourse, draw on context and language in order to create text. Part II moves on from the process to the product. It is even more concerned with the acceptability of text, because if a text is not acceptable within the culture, then it will have no role to play in the ongoing development of that culture. In each of the institutional discourses to be examined (education, medicine, law, news media, and literature), it becomes evident how the process of arriving at appropriateness in the context and grammaticality in the language results in acceptability of the product.