Studies in functional stylistics / edited by Jan Chloupek and Jiří Nekvapil.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chloupek, Jan.

Nekvapil, Jiří.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 36.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Czech language--Style.

Czech language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fac

Contents:

STUDIES IN FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Opening Remarks; Prologue: Ferdinand de Saussureand the Prague Linguistic Circle; Notes; The Position of Style in Verbal Communication; Notes; References; Language Varieties and Styles in Communication; Notes; References; On the Beginnings of Modern Standard Czech; Notes; References; Slang and Some Related Problems in Czech Linguistics; 1. Historical facts; 2. The unused alternative solution; 3. Explanation: Differential as opposed to complex analysis of text

4. Addendum: Differentiation of the national languageNotes; References; Publicist Style; 1. The position of publicist style amongst functional styles; 2. THE MEANS OF EXPRESSION OF PUBLICIST STYLE; 3. A metalinguistic evaluation of expression in publicist style; Notes; References; Semantic Contexts in a Poetical Work; Notes; References; On the Stylistic Aspect of Coreferential Naming Chains; 1. Coreferential naming chains; 2. The involvement of coreferential NUs in co-text and context and its stylistic values; 3. One specific variety of CNCs: the ""austere"" chains of modern literary prose

NotesReferences; The Position of Verbless Clauses in the System of Means of Czech Functional Styles; References; On the Asymmetry between Syntactic and Elementary Textual Units; 1. Compounded formations, base component, bound component; 2. Grammatical sentence pattern and utterance; 2.1. Petr selhal totálne. (Peter failed totally.); 2.2. Petr selhal. Totálne. (Peter failed. Totally.); 3. Definition of compounded formations; 4. Structure of compounded formations; 5. Compounded formations and text; 6. Functional sentence perspective of compounded formations

7. The syntactic processes of panellation and supplementation and their results: parcellated formations and supplemented formations8. Notes on the concept of the syntactic whole; 9. A tentative psycholinguistic interpretation of parcellation and supplementation; 10. The recipient's point of view; 10.1. Sentence delimitation; 10.2. The gradual filling of positions of the grammatical sentence pattern with a right-valence potential element; 11. Basic models of elementary textual development; 12. The function of compounded formations; 13. The stylistics of compounded formations; Conclusion; Notes

ReferencesThe Language and Style of Hašek's Novel ""The Good Soldier Švejk"" from the Viewpoint of Translation; Notes; References; Conversion of ""Key Words"" of English Song Lyrics into Czech; 1. The song as a specific semiotic heterogenous message; 2. Sound and meaning of key words in intertextual relations; 3. The reason for the imitation of sound of the original lyric; 4. Conclusions; Notes; References; On the Concept of Language Culture; Notes; References; Rhetoric, Functional Stylistics and Theory of Language Culture; References

Epilogue: On the Way to a General Stylistics of Human Activity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-32804-6

9786613328045

90-272-7689-7

OCLC:

608199858