_______ is a set of linguistic choices associated with a particular situation. These situations are usually related to professional activity (the language of teachers, doctors, students, and so forth) or interests (bridge-playing, bird-watching, music-making, and so forth).

_______ is a statistical meas­ure of the relative frequency of lexical words and grammatical words in a stretch of text.

With _______, we are concerned with the formal (but at the same time semantic) links between clauses, how an item - a pronoun, a noun or a conjunction - in one clause may refer backwards or forwards to another clause.

A _______ item is a word or phrase, the identity of which can be determined by referring to other parts of the text or the situation.

With _______, a substitute word of phrase is replaced by another, for example, Which book do you want? I'll take the red one. In this example the word book is substituted by one.

"It" is defined as a variation on substitution. It is described by them as ‘substi­tution by zero', that is to say, something is omitted. Where _______ occurs, something is left unsaid, it is true, but, at the same time, it is nevertheless understood.

_______ is defined as a system for marking what they refer to as logicosemantic relations.

_______ is the way in which words are used regularly together.

_______ of a lexical item in a text may be by repetition of a word, use of a synonym, a near synonym, a superordinate or a general class word.

The remainder of the clause, what is not part of the theme, is referred to as the ______.

Everything in the clause which is not theme is the ______.

With ______, we are concerned with the functional, or communicative, value of utterances, with language used to perform actions - actions such as greeting, inviting, offering, ordering, prom­ising, requesting, warning, and so forth.

Performative meanings are referred to as ______, the speak­er's intention in making an utterance.

______ are thus the logical conditions or expected circumstances necessary for the (felicitous/‘happy') performance of a given speech act.

Name one of the five categories of speech acts.

_______ are words or phrases telling hearers to disregard one of the maxims.