Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication Book

	Preface
	List of abbreviations
Pt. I	Functional sentence perspective in written communication
1	Introduction	3
	In medias res	3
	Two perspectives	5
	Communicative dynamism and linear modification--one of the factors of functional sentence perspective	6
	Potentiality	11
	Actual linear arrangement and interpretative arrangement	12
	Organization of the present study	13
2	The sentence and the carriers of communicative dynamism	14
	The sentence as a field of relations	14
	The hierarchy of carriers of communicative dynamism	16
3	The contextual factor	21
	Known information and the structure of context	21
	The immediately relevant context	23
	Signalling of context dependence	31
	More thoughts on context dependence	37
	Context--a graded phenomenon	39
	Presenting elements as context-dependent	40
4	The semantic factor	41
	The verb and its successful competitors	41
5	The theme and the non-theme	66
	The scales of dynamic semantic functions	66
	The foundation-laying and the core-constituting elements: the theme and the non-theme	69
	An analysis of a text	74
	Additional notes on transition (transition proper oriented elements)	77
	Additional notes on theme (diathematic elements)	79
	Additional notes on rheme (strings of specifications)	81
	The functional perspective of the noun phrase	83
	Dynamic and static	86
6	Some special issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective	88
	Boundary between theme and non-theme	88
	The functional sentence perspective of questions, negative sentences and commands	97
	The concept of communicative dynamism revisited	104
	More thoughts on potentiality	108
	The contextual applicability of functional sentence perspective	110
	Signals of the distribution of communicative dynamism	114
7	Word order and functional sentence perspective	117
	Word order as a system	117
	Topicalization	125
	Notes on Old English and present-day English word orders	127
	Basic instance-level implementations	134
Pt. II	Functional sentence perspective in spoken communication
8	Non-prosodic distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence	143
	Degrees of prosodic prominence	143
	Perfect correspondence between the non-prosodic distribution of communicative dynamism and the distribution of prosodic prominence	148
	Prosodic intensification imposed upon perfect correspondence between the two distributions	154
	Selective non-reevaluating intensification	156
	Re-evaluating prosodic intensification	159
9	Some more observations on the relationship between the non-prosodic distribution of communicative dynamism and that of prosodic prominence	173
	Deshading	173
	Further notes on shading and the to-be-in-the-know effect	176
	Settings and specifications	180
	More thoughts on the prosodic implementation of the subject and on potentiality	183
	Functional sentence perspective, intonation and emotiveness	186
	Intonation of questions	189
10	Analyses of two spoken texts	192
	Analysis of the first text	193
	Analysis of the second text	196
	The relevance of degrees of prosodic prominence to functional sentence perspective	212
11	Some special issues concerning functional sentence perspective in the spoken language	214
	Functional sentence perspective and the contextual applicability of the spoken sentence structure	214
	Can communicative dynamism be equated with prosodic prominence?	216
	Summarizing the role of intonation in functional sentence perspective	218
	Written language and spoken language	220
	Potentiality revisited	221
	The contextual factor revisited	222
	Epilogue	225
	References	227
	Index	235