The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics
The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics

Author: Philip Luelsdorff

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9027215502

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The importance of the Prague School for the rise of structuralism and for integration of the theoretical linguistics of today can hardly be overestimated. The volume brings together 13 papers showing the main results of the research of the Prague School and of its continuation in the domains of phonemics and written language, morphemics and word formation, lexicon, syntax and semantics, text structures, stylistics and typology. The authors all actively contributed to the domain they are treating here.

Studies in Functional Stylistics
Studies in Functional Stylistics

Author: Jan Chloupek

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9027215456

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The 15 contributions in the present collection can be divided roughly into three groups: (1) Papers directly following up functional stylistics and the theory of language culture, elaborated in the classical period of the Prague Linguistic School. (2) Papers concerning the problems of style in a wider communicative arena. These contributions are closely related to contemporary text linguistics and also deal with problems involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and semiotics. (3) Papers having, at least in some part, a pronounced historiographic character. These contributions reflect the fact that contemporary Czech linguistic research is firmly anchored in the Prague linguistic tradition. Although the authors' frame of reference is mainly Czech and the current language situation in the Czech Republic, the majority of contributions were intended to have a more general linguistic character and general linguistic validity.

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Author: Jan Firbas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-06-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0521373085

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Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.

Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics
Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics

Author: Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9811687137

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This book features a collection of 10 interviews with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, who is a key figure in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and has collaborated closely with M.A.K. Halliday since the 1980s. As noted by Professor Chang Chenguang, Editor of the M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, “this collection of interviews serves as an important reference for scholars and students of SFL. It provides a unique perspective on the theoretical development and future outlooks of SFL, as well as Matthiessen’s own interpretations of the theory. It also enriches our understanding of SFL and is a very useful addition to the series.” Written in an engaging dialogic format, the book paints a vivid picture of SFL thriving among the landscape of general linguistics and of SFL as an important tool now being applied in various areas.

Studies in English Language
Studies in English Language

Author: M.A.K. Halliday

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-03-31

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1847065740

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A fascinating, seventh volume in the Collected Works of M.A.K Halliday series, on Studies in English Language.

Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics
Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics

Author: Eva Hajicova

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 9027215278

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The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Tešitelová; Ludmila Uhlírová; I. Nebeská; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Marie Tešitelová , J. Petr & Jan Králík; J. Štepán; J. Krámský; J. Dušková; J. Sabol. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotný; L. Nebeský; Petr Sgall; Eva Hajicová, Petr Sgall & J. Vrbová; Jarmila Panevová; Petr Pitha; Eva Buránová; Svatava Machová; Eva Hajicová, M. Hnátková & P. Jirku; Zdenek Kirschner; Pavel Materna.

Language and Function
Language and Function

Author: Josef Hladký

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-04-17

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9027296731

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The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.