Issues in Functional Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk Program of Discourse Studies University of Amsterdam The highest aim of a functional grammar of a particular language is to give a complete and adequate account of the grammatical organization of connected discourse in that language. (Simon C. Dik, The Theory of Functional Grammar, Part I, 1989, p. 12). O. Introduction In a paper honoring Simon C. Dik and his seminal work on Functional Grammar (FG) it may be expected that special attention be paid to the functional properties of language and language use. Similarly, given my own framework of research, it may also be expected that such a functional approach should focus on discourse. I shall fulfill these expectations by examining some of the implications of what may be called `Functional Discourse Analysis' (FDA). FDA has a linguistic component, which deals with grammatical and other functional relations of textual structures or strategies, and a broader, interdisciplinary component, which analyzes the functional relations between these textual structures and various structures of the `context , such as those of cognition, interaction, and even the structures of the societal or cultural macro-level. The first component will be called `Functional Text Analysis' and the second `Functional Text-Context Analysis'. `Functional Discourse Analysis'