THE SYNTAX OF SENTENCE AND TEXT -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- NOTE -- Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Professor František Daneš, PhDr., DrSc. -- I. PRAGUE SCHOOL FUNCTIONALISM -- Functionalism versus Formalism in East and West -- A. The agenda of functionalism -- B. The advent of FSP -- C. Daneš' three-level approach -- D. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Centre and Periphery, Delicacy and Fuzz -- 1. Discreteness, fuzz, centre, periphery -- 2. Centre, periphery, and markedness -- 3. Periphery and strategy -- 4. Variance and invariance -- 5. Milestones in fuzzy description -- 6. From naturalness to prototypes -- 7. The dynamic view: conflict and conspiracy -- 8. Literary preference semantics -- 9. Fuzzy sets -- 10. Variable rules -- 11. Definitions of concepts -- REFERENCES -- Karl Bühler's Field Theory in the Light of the Current Interest in Pragmatics -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Vilém Mathesius as One of the Forerunners of Modern Textological Research -- REFERENCES -- II. FUNCTIONAL SENTENCE PERSPECTIVE AND THEMATIC PROGRESSIONS -- "I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again": Information Structure in Writing -- REFERENCES -- Functional Sentence Perspective within a Model of Natural Textlinguistics -- 1. The general textual model -- 2. Dimensions of FSP most relevant for TL -- 2.1. Informativity -- 2.2. Cotextually or contextually known vs. unknown -- 2.3. Given vs. new in S's strategies (intentionality) -- 2.4. Linearisation -- 2.5. Base -- 3. Preference parameters (universal naturalness/markedness) -- 3.1. Preferred coincidences for T within a speech act -- 3.2. Preferred coincidences for R within n speech aca -- 3.3. Indexicality -- 3.4. lconicity -- 3.5. Preference for binary relations -- 3.6. Conflicts between speaker- and hearer-friendllness.

3.7. Second-instance sentences as marked units -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- On Thematic Configurations in Texts: Orientation and goals -- Why are thematic configurations needed -- Anticipating thematic configurations in texts -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Substantiating Daneš's View of Givensess as a Graded Phenomenon -- REFERENCES -- Is There Implicit Inclusion of Preceding Predicates in Anaphorics of Nominals or Pronominals? -- 1. Explicit inclusion of preceding predicates in subsequent anaphorics of nominals -- 2. Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of preceding predicates in subsequent anaphorics of nominals or pronominals -- 2.1 Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of predicates in subsequent anaphorics in two-sentence sentence sequences -- 2.2 Implicit inclusion and non-inclusion of predicates in subsequent anaphorics in longer sentence sequences -- 3. Implicit predicate-inclusion in expressions of the type 'such a + common noun' -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Discourse as Determinacy -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Determinacy grammar and text linguistics -- 2. Determinacy grammar and functional sentence perspective -- 3· Thematic progressions as determinacy progressions -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Some Aspects of the Syntactic and Semantic Text-Composition: The Topic - Comment Structure of Initial Text Sentences from a Semiotic Textological Point of View -- 1. Some general remarks on the textological research -- 2. The central aspects and factors of the semiotic textology -- 3. Aspects of the syntactic and semantic composition of initial text-sentences -- 4. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Functional Sentence Perspective in Modern and Old Javanese -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- III. TEXT AND DISCOURSE -- Discontinuity in Texts -- O. Introduction -- 1. Discontinuity: a problem for textual coherence -- 2. Referential discontinuity.

3. Inferential discontinuity -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Voices of Intention and Interpretation: On "The Czech Dreambook" by Ludvík Vaculík -- The text and the discourse -- Observation 1. Interaction -- Observation 2. Involvement -- Observation 3. Truth and Fiction -- Observation 4. Strategies -- Observation 5. Language -- Observation 6. Complexity -- Observation 7. Intertextual considerations -- Observation 8. Poetic gesture -- Observation 9. Preconditions and limits of interpretation -- Conclusions. The text and the feedback -- REFERENCES -- SOURCES -- On the Means of Expressing Vagueness and Uncertainty in CzechDiscourseNojá nevim asi tak nak... -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Repetition and Variation as Stylistic Principles of a Text Structure -- REFERENCES -- On Mutual Transformations between Spoken and Written Text -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 'Passive' Moves in Argumentation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The inventory of passive roles -- 3. Passive moves -- 4. Moves including a passive component -- REFERENCES -- SOURCES -- E-mail as a New Subvariety of Medium and its Effects upon the Message -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- From Syntax to Text: Problems in Producing Scientific Abstracts in L2 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Text producer's point of view: publishers and authors -- 4. Syntactic analysis: Mean length of sentences -- 5. Textual analysis -- 6. The writer directing the reader's decoding process -- 7. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- IV. GRAMMAR AND SEMANTICS -- Notes on the Functions of Grammatical Units in Language System and in Discourse -- 1. Potential and resultative aspects of function -- 2. Function and meaning -- 3. Function and the system-environment dichotomy -- 4. Functions of language units at the level of word forms and at the levels of utterance and text as a whole -- REFERENCES -- Sentential Complementation and Truth.

REFERENCES -- Simultaneous Encoding of Morpho-Syntactic and Textual Features in Oral Narrative Prose -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plurifunctional encoding -- 3. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Acceptability and the Scope of Grammar -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- On Relative Pronouns in Czech and German (jenž - který, der - welcher) -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Constructions with Verbs and Abstract Nouns in Czech (Analytic Predicates) -- REFERENCES -- The Potential Valency Constituent in Diachronic Lexicology -- REFERENCES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Subject Index.