Discourse and Meaning
Papers in honor of Eva Hajičová
Editors
A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language processing is reflected in the papers by 30 authors, divided in five sections (Discourse, Meaning, Focus, Translation, Structure).
[Not in series, 78] 1996. xiv, 430 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Preface | p. v
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Contents | p. ix
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Tabula gratulatoria | p. xiii
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1. Foreword
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Although her life with us has not been easy …Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall | p. 3
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2. Discourse
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Non-propositional encoding of discourse categoriesOlga T. Yokoyama | p. 17
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The content and form of illocutionary actsJán Horecký | p. 31
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The sublanguage paradigm: A comprehensive theory of linguistic activityBozena Henisz Thompson | p. 39
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Knowledge negotiationPhilip A. Luelsdorff | p. 47
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3. Meaning
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Allegation and local accommodationBarbara H. Partee | p. 65
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Remarks on substance, function and formHelmut Schnelle | p. 87
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Three kinds of using the identity signPavel Materna | p. 95
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On what is impossible entailing everythingAndrzej Bogusławski | p. 111
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Some remarks on homonymy and polysemyEugenius M. Uhlenbeck | p. 119
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The meaning of Meaning in the Prague schoolOldřich Leška | p. 127
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Your metaphor or mine: Belief ascription and metaphor interpretationYorick Wilks, John Barnden and Jin Wang | p. 141
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On real mother, real man and similar expressionsMilka Ivić | p. 163
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4. Focus
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The focus and scope of onlyJames D. McCawley | p. 171
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Grammatical implementation of the dominance of subject and focusBengt Sigurd | p. 195
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A note on rhematic disagreements in early child languageWolfgang U. Dressler | p. 205
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Mobility of clause constituents and functional sentence perspectiveJan Firbas | p. 221
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Topic and focus in a formal frameworkJaroslav Peregrin | p. 235
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Wh-extraction and the topic-focus articulation of the sentenceEva Koktová | p. 255
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Theme-rheme structure: Its exponents and its semantic interpretationElena V. Paducheva | p. 273
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5. Translation
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Some rationales and methodologies for example-based machine translationMakoto Nagao | p. 291
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Les belles infidèles: Fidelity as a criterion of good translationMargaret King | p. 307
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Preference mechanisms of the Multra machine translation systemAnna Sågvall Hein | p. 321
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6. Structure
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Structural and communicative hierarchies in participial adjunctsRudolf Růžička | p. 337
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Writing down the speech of very small children by English graphemesJosef Vachek | p. 347
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Tough constructions of Japanese and English in HPSG frameworkAkira Ikeya | p. 353
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On quantification in grammar and semanticsMarie Těšitelová | p. 369
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Fitting languages into a model of language modelled on languageOlga Mišeska Tomić | p. 379
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Some peculiarities of Czech relational adjectivesCharles E. Townsend | p. 393
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Afterword
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Eva Hajičová — An appreciationBarbara H. Partee | p. 407
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Name Index | p. 419
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Subject Index | p. 423
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Cited by one other publication
van Dijk, Teun A. & Encarna Atienza
2011. Knowledge and discourse in secondary school social science textbooks. Discourse Studies 13:1 ► pp. 93 ff. 
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Subjects
Translation & Interpreting Studies
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General