Papers presented at the 1990 Symposium of the Nordic Research Group for Theoretical and Applied Text Linguistics include the following: "Success Concepts" (Enkvist); "Reconciling the Psychological with the Linguistic in Accounts of Text Comprehension" (Garrod); "Particles as Fundaments of Discourse Structuring" (Fernandez-Vest); "Macrostructure in Conversation" (Backlund); "Lexis in Discourse" (Nyyssonen); "The Notion of Coercion in Courtroom Questioning" (Bulow-Moller); "Message Structure in LSP Texts: A Socially Determined Variation at Different Text Levels" (Gunnarsson); "Main Worlds and Supplements" (Melander); "Identity Relations and Superthemes in Swedish LSP Texts" (Naslund); "Conflicts and Changes in Textual Norms" (Berge); "Sign, Language, and Ritual: Contrastive Discourse Analysis of East German and Soviet TV News" (Pankow); "News Discourse: The Paratextual Structure of News Texts" (Frandsen); "Polyphonic Structure" (Flottum); "Articulation of Relational Propositions: A Tool for Identifying an Aspect of Text Comprehension" (Tirkkonen-Condit); "Temporal Adverbials in Text Structuring: On Temporal Text Strategy" (Virtanen); "Diversifying Procedural Discourse" (Wikberg); "A Sense of Relief: Backgrounding in Argumentative Student Writing" (Evensen); "Text and Reference" (Ventola); "Reference in Academic Rhetoric: A Contrastive Study of Finnish and English Writing" (Mauranen); "Some Aspects of the Pragmatic Organization of Academic Discourse" (Suomela-Salmi); "Composing on the Computer: A Study of Work Habits on the Job" (Wikborg); and "The Use of'Idea Processors' for Studying Structural Aspects of Text Production" (Eklundh). (JP)