  We construct a version of kneading theory for families of monotonous
functions on the real line. The generality of the setup covers two classical
results from Milnor-Thurston's kneading theory: the first one is to dynamically
characterise an $l$-modal map by its kneading sequence, the second one is to
define the concept of kneading determinant, relate it to topological entropy
and use this to construct a certain type of special "linearazing measure".
