This collection of papers on semantics and cohesion is organized into two sections: Meaning and Semantics, and Textual Cohesion. Titles and authors are as follows: "Functional Text Semantics, Idioms, and Variability" (Jan-Ola Ostman); "On the Degree of Motivation in Signs Used in Metaphors Involving Plant Symbolism" (Ralf Norrman); "'Hence'--An Iconoclastic Study on Logic, Language and Argumentation" (Johan Van der Auwera); "Montague Grammar and the Aims of Linguistics and Logic" (Bengt-Olof Qvarnstrom); "Coherence, Pseudo-Coherence, and Non-Coherence" (Nils Erik Enkvist); "An Analysis of Textual Cohesion in a Passage from Maria Gripe's 'Hugo och Josefin'" (Erik Andersson); "Some Aspects of Discourse and Cohesion" (Liisa Korpimies); "Some Observations on Cohesion and Coherence in Simplified Texts" (Liisa Lautamatti); and "Felicity Conditions, Preferred Interpretations, and Disambiguations of Pronominal Reference in Reported Speech" (Nils Erik Enkvist). (MSE)