The Prague School and Its Legacy

1. Contributors; 2. Introduction (by Tobin, Yishai); 3. I. Prague school phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications; 4. Functional load and diachronic phonology (by Catford, John C.); 5. Distinctive features in synchronic and diachronic phonology (by Liberman, Anatoly); 6. From segments to autosegments: Nasalization in Sudanese (by Vago, Robert M.); 7. Phonetics versus phonology: The prague school and beyond (by Tobin, Yishai); 8. II. The Prague school and functional discourse analysis; 9. The discoursal iz of Yiddish (by Kahan-Newman, Zelda); 10. Frequency in communicative perspective: Some word order phenomena in Spanish (by Putte, Florimon C.M. van); 11. Paradigmatic structure and syntactic relations (by Schooneveld, Cornelis H. van); 12. Word order in children's literature: FSP and markedness (by Ziv, Yael); 13. Topic-chaining and dominance chaining (by Erteschik-Shir, Nomi); 14. The theme in text cohesion (by Kurzon, Dennis); 15. III. The Prague school and aspects of literary criticism; 16. Literary transduction: Prague school approach (by Dolezel, Lubomir); 17. Dominant = tonic + dominant (by Arie-Gaifman, Hana); 18. James Joyce and the Prague school: Aesthetic foregrouding in Finnegan's Wake (by Henke, S.A.); 19. Objective features of text-analysis according to Mukarovsky (by Moked, G.); 20. Phonology as a pattern of analysis: The deep message of the thrillers by Ambrose Bierce (by Langleben, Maria M.); 21. IV. The sociological and ethnological concerns of the Prague school; 22. The sociological concerns of the Prague school (by Matejka, Ladislav); 23. From folklore to folkstyle: The Prague circle's contribution to the ethnoinquiries (by Kaplan, Charles D.); 24. The relevance of structuralism to the study of nonverbal behavior (by Raffler-Engel, Walburga von); 25. V. The Prague school's semiotic approach to the arts; 26. The dialectic functioning of Mukarovsky's semiotic model (by Gandelman, Claude); 27. A chair is a chair is a CHAIR: The object as sign in the theatrical performance (by Rokem, F.); 28. Semiotics of the theatre: The Prague school heritage (by Pladott, Dinnah); 29. Name index; 30. Subject index