<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> The inaugural volume of the Handbücher Sprachwissen series demonstrates the relevance of language as a symbolic system for creating knowledge and applying it in social domains and other spheres of activity (medicine, law, business, etc.). The series takes a language-systemic perspective that goes from sound to text and discourse, combining it with a usage-orientedapproach focusing on linguistic phenomena as such.
