“I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 11
5. Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor František Daneš, PhDr., DrSc 17
6. I. Prague School Functionalism
7. Factionalism versus Formalism in East and West 29
8. Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz 43
9. Karl Bühler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics 59
10. Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research 67
11. II. Functional Sentence Perspective and Thematic Progressions
12. “I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again” 75
13. Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics 89
14. On Thematic Configurations in Texts 105
15. Substantiating Daneš's View of Givenness as a Graded Phenomenon 119
16. Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals? 131
17. Discourse as Determinacy 147
18. Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition 165
19. Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese 179
20. III. Text and Discourse
21. Discontinuity in Texts 195
22. Voices of Intention and Interpretation 205
23. On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in Czech Discourse 219
24. Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure 237
25. On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text 247
26. ‘Passive’ Moves in Argumentation 259
27. E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message 273
28. From Syntax to Text 283
29. IV. Grammar and Semantics
30. Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse 307
31. Sentential Complementation and Truth 317
32. Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose 333
33. Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar 341
34. On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenž - který, der - welcher) 359
35. Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytical Predicates) 365
36. Potential Valency Components from the Point of View of Historical Lexicography 375
37. Subject Index 383