Table of contents
Acknowledgements9
Preface11
Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor František Daneš, PhDr., DrSc17
I. Prague School Functionalism
Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West29
Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz43
Karl Bühler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics59
Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research67
II. Functional Sentence Perspective and Thematic Progressions
“I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again”: Information Structure in Writing75
Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics89
On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals105
Substantiating Daneš's View of Givenness as a Graded Phenomenon119
Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals?131
Discourse as Determinacy147
Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View165
Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese179
III. Text and Discourse
Discontinuity in Texts195
Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On “The Czech Dreambook” by Ludvík Vaculík205
On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in Czech Discourse219
Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure237
On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text247
‘Passive’ Moves in Argumentation259
E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message273
From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2283
IV. Grammar and Semantics
Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse307
Sentential Complementation and Truth317
Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose333
Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar341
On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenž - který, der - welcher)359
Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytical Predicates)365
Potential Valency Components from the Point of View of Historical Lexicography375
Subject Index383
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