John Benjamins, 1994. — 398 pages. — (Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe). — ISBN: 90-272-1551-0 / 1-55619-267-3.
The theory of functional sentence perspective, discourse studies and semantics are reflected in the 27 papers collected in four thematic sections of this volume.
Prague School FunctionalismFunctionalism versus Formalism in East and West
Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz
Karl Bühler’s Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics
Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research
Functional Sentence Perspective and Thematic Progressions"I’m Sorry, I’ll Read that Again": Information Structure in Writing
Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics
On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals
Substantiating Daneš’s View of Givenness as a Graded Phenomenon
Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals?
Discourse as Determinacy
Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View
Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese
Text and DiscourseDiscontinuity in Texts
Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On "The Czech Dreambook" by Ludvík Vaculík
On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in Czech Discourse
Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure
On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text
*Passive’ Moves in Argumentation
E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message
From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2
Grammar and SemanticsNotes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse
Sentential Complementation and Truth
Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose
Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar
On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenž - který, der - welcher)
Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytical Predicates)
Potential Valency Components from the Point of View of Historical Lexicography