Published in honour of his 75th birthday, this volume celebrates Dane' international contribution to the development of Prague School functionalism, the theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics. Contributions by: Robert de Beaugrande; Andrej Boguslawski; Alexandr Bondarko; Svetla Cmejrkova, Maria-Elisabeth Conte; Martin Davies; Wolfgang Dressler; Anna Duszak; Nils Erik Enkvist; Jan Firbas; Paul L. Garvin; Roland Harweg; Jana Hoffmanova; Miroslav Komarek; Jirm Kraus; Philip L. Luelsdorff, Eva Machackova; Olga Miillerova, Igor Nemec; Janos Sander Petvfi; Hansjakob Seiler; Sorin Stati; Frantiek ticha; Eugenius Uhlenbeck; Ludmila Uhlirova; Joseph Vachek; Eija Ventola.