The Prague School and its legacy : in linguistics, literature, semiotics, folklore, and the arts /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1988.
Description:xxix, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 27
Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe. v. 27.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/902226
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Other authors / contributors:Tobin, Y.
ISBN:9027215324 (alk. paper) : $58.00
9027215375 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $21.95
Notes:"Containing the contributions to a colloquium on the Prague School and its legacy held at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Be'er Sheva, Israel, May 1984."
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Contributors
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. I. Prague school phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications
  • 4. Functional load and diachronic phonology
  • 5. Distinctive features in synchronic and diachronic phonology
  • 6. From segments to autosegments
  • 7. Phonetics versus phonology
  • 8. II. The Prague school and functional discourse analysis
  • 9. The\discoursal iz of Yiddish
  • 10. Frequency in communicative perspective
  • 11. Paradigmatic structure and syntactic relations
  • 12. Word order in children's literature
  • 13. Topic-chaining and dominance chaining
  • 14. The\theme in text cohesion
  • 15. III. The Prague school and aspects of literary criticism
  • 16. Literary transduction
  • 17. Dominant = tonic + dominant
  • 18. James Joyce and the Prague school
  • 19. Objective features of text-analysis according to Muka#345;ovský
  • 20. Phonology as a pattern of analysis
  • 21. IV. The sociological and ethnological concerns of the Prague school
  • 22. The\sociological concerns of the Prague school
  • 23. From folklore to folkstyle
  • 24. The\relevance of structuralism to the study of nonverbal behavior
  • 25. V. The Prague school's semiotic approach to the arts
  • 26. The\dialectic functioning of Muka#345;ovský's semiotic model
  • 27. A\chair is a chair is a CHAIR
  • 28. Semiotics of the theatre
  • 29. Name index
  • 30. Subject index