Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I. GENERAL PROPERTIES OF TEXT GRAMMARS -- 1. TOWARDS A THEORY OF TEXT GRAMMARS -- 2. TEXTUAL SURFACE STRUCTURES: RELATIONS BETWEEN SENTENCES -- 3. TEXTUAL DEEP STRUCTURE: MACRO-STRUCTURES -- PART II. ASPECTS OF LITERARY TEXT GRAMMARS -- 4. THE FOUNDATIONS OF POETICS. METHODOLOGICAL PRELIMINARIES -- 5. LINGUISTICS AND POETICS -- 6. SURFACE OPERATIONS -- 7. SEMANTIC OPERATIONS. PROCESSES OF METAPHORIZATION -- 8. SEMANTIC MACRO-OPERATIONS. NARRATIVE STRUCTURES -- PART III. TOWARDS A THEORY OF TEXTUAL COMMUNICATION -- 9. CONTEXT, PERFORMANCE, PRAGMATICS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX