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 language -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 formations -- 8. 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 -- References -- The 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 -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.