Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. I. Prague school phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications
6. Functional load and diachronic phonology 3
7. Distinctive features in synchronic and diachronic phonology 21
8. From segments to autosegments 37
9. Phonetics versus phonology 49
10. II. The Prague school and functional discourse analysis
11. The discoursal iz of Yiddish 73
12. Frequency in communicative perspective 91
13. Paradigmatic structure and syntactic relations 109
14. Word order in children’s literature 123
15. Topic-chaining and dominance chaining 145
16. The theme in text cohesion 155
17. III. The Prague school and aspects of literary criticism
18. Literary transduction 165
19. Dominant = tonic + dominant 177
20. James Joyce and the Prague school 185
21. Objective features of text-analysis according to Mukařovský 193
22. Phonology as a pattern of analysis 205
23. IV. The sociological and ethnological concerns of the Prague school
24. The sociological concerns of the Prague school 219
25. From folklore to folkstyle 227
26. The relevance of structuralism to the study of nonverbal behavior 245
27. V. The Prague school’s semiotic approach to the arts
28. The dialectic functioning of Mukařovský’s semiotic model 265
29. A chair is a chair is a CHAIR 275
30. Semiotics of the theatre 289
31. Name index 305
32. Subject index 311