
The Syntax of Sentence and Text
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- THE SYNTAX OF SENTENCE AND TEXT
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- NOTE
- Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor Frantisek Danes, PhDr., DrSc.
- I. PRAGUE SCHOOL FUNCTIONALISM
- Functionalism versus Formalism in East and West
- A. The agenda of functionalism
- B. The advent of FSP
- C. Danes' three-level approach
- D. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz
- 1. Discreteness, fuzz, centre, periphery
- 2. Centre, periphery, and markedness
- 3. Periphery and strategy
- 4. Variance and invariance
- 5. Milestones in fuzzy description
- 6. From naturalness to prototypes
- 7. The dynamic view: conflict and conspiracy
- 8. Literary preference semantics
- 9. Fuzzy sets
- 10. Variable rules
- 11. Definitions of concepts
- REFERENCES
- Karl Bühler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research
- REFERENCES
- II. FUNCTIONAL SENTENCE PERSPECTIVE AND THEMATIC PROGRESSIONS
- I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again": Information Structure in Writing
- REFERENCES
- Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics
- 1. The general textual model
- 2. Dimensions of FSP most relevant for TL
- 2.1. Informativity
- 2.2. Cotextually or contextually known vs. unknown
- 2.3. Given vs. new in S's strategies (intentionality)
- 2.4. Linearisation
- 2.5. Base
- 3. Preference parameters (universal naturalness/markedness)
- 3.1. Preferred coincidences for T within a speech act
- 3.2. Preferred coincidences for R within n speech aca
- 3.3. Indexicality
- 3.4. lconicity
- 3.5. Preference for binary relations
- 3.6. Conflicts between speaker- and hearer-friendllness
- 3.7. Second-instance sentences as marked units
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals
- Why are thematic configurations needed
- Anticipating thematic configurations in texts
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Substantiating Danes's View of Givensess as a Graded Phenomenon
- REFERENCES
- Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals?
- 1. Explicit inclusion of preceding predicates in subsequent anaphorics of nominals
- 2. Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of preceding predicates in subsequent anaphorics of nominals or pronominals
- 2.1 Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of predicates in subsequent anaphorics in two-sentence sentence sequences
- 2.2 Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of predicates in subsequent anaphorics in longer sentence sequences
- 3. Implicit predicate-inclusion in expressions of the type 'such a + common noun'
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Discourse as Determinacy
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Determinacy grammar and text linguistics
- 2. Determinacy grammar and functional sentence perspective
- 3· Thematic progressions as determinacy progressions
- 4. Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View
- 1. Some general remarks on the textological research
- 2. The central aspects and factors of the semiotic textology
- 3. Aspects of the syntactic and semantic composition of initial text-sentences
- 4. Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- III. TEXT AND DISCOURSE
- Discontinuity in Texts
- O. Introduction
- 1. Discontinuity: a problem for textual coherence
- 2. Referential discontinuity
- 3. Inferential discontinuity
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On "The Czech Dreambook" by Ludvík Vaculík
- The text and the discourse
- Observation 1. Interaction
- Observation 2. Involvement
- Observation 3. Truth and Fiction
- Observation 4. Strategies
- Observation 5. Language
- Observation 6. Complexity
- Observation 7. Intertextual considerations
- Observation 8. Poetic gesture
- Observation 9. Preconditions and limits of interpretation
- Conclusions. The text and the feedback
- REFERENCES
- SOURCES
- On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in CzechDiscourseNojá nevim asi tak nak...
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure
- REFERENCES
- On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 'Passive' Moves in Argumentation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The inventory of passive roles
- 3. Passive moves
- 4. Moves including a passive component
- REFERENCES
- SOURCES
- E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The data
- 3. Text producer's point of view: publishers and authors
- 4. Syntactic analysis: Mean length of sentences
- 5. Textual analysis
- 6. The writer directing the reader's decoding process
- 7. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX
- IV. GRAMMAR AND SEMANTICS
- Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse
- 1. Potential and resultative aspects of function
- 2. Function and meaning
- 3. Function and the system-environment dichotomy
- 4. Functions of language units at the level of word forms and at the levels of utterance and text as a whole
- REFERENCES
- Sentential Complementation and Truth
- REFERENCES
- Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Plurifunctional encoding
- 3. Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenz - který, der - welcher)
- Conclusion
- REFERENCES
- Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytic Predicates)
- REFERENCES
- The Potential Valency Constituent in Diachronic Lexicology
- REFERENCES
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Subject Index
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