Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction by the General Editor of the Series
5. On Praguian Functionalism and Some Extensions xi
6. The Classical Period of the School
7. On the Potentiality of the Phenomena of Language 3
8. New Currents and Tendencies in Linguistic Research 45
9. Trends in Present-Day Linguistic Research 65
10. Prague Linguistic Circle 77
11. Functional Linguistics 121
12. The Functional Differentiation of the Standard Language 143
13. Standard Language and Poetic Language 165
14. On Questions of Phonological Oppositions 187
15. Some Remarks on Writing and Phonetic Transcription 199
16. Linguistics and the Ideological Structure of the Period 211
17. Appendices
18. On Some Less Known Aspects of the Early Prague Linguistic School 233
19. Remarks on the Dynamism of the System of Language 241
20. The Heritage of the Prague School to Modern Linguistic Research 255
21. The Czech Editor's Postscript 275
22. Indexes of Persons and Subjects 303
23. Errata 323