Prologue

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Opening Remarks 7
4. Prologue 9
5. The Position of Style in Verbal Communication 51
6. Language Varieties and Styles in Communication 68
7. On the Beginnings of Modern Standard Czech 92
8. Slang and Some Related Problems in Czech Linguistics 99
9. Publicist Style 112
10. Semantic Contexts in a Poetical Work 127
11. On the Stylistic Aspect of Coreferential Naming Chains 146
12. The Position of Verbless Clauses in the System of Means of Czech Functional Styles 163
13. On the Asymmetry between Syntactic and Elementary Textual Units 186
14. The Language and Style of Hašek's Novel “The Good Soldier Švejk” from the Viewpoint of Translation 223
15. Conversion of “Key Words” of English Song Lyrics into Czech 248
16. On the Concept of Language Culture 257
17. Rhetoric, Functional Stylistics and Theory of Language Culture 272
18. Epilogue 278
19. List of Contributors 285
20. Index of Names 287
21. Subject Index 291