Table of Contents

1. Opening Remarks; 2. Prologue: Ferdinand de Saussure and the Prague Linguistic Circle (by Leska, Oldrich); 3. The Position of Style in Verbal Communication (by Hausenblas, K.); 4. Language Varieties and Styles in Communication (by Chloupek, Jan); 5. On the Beginnings of Modern Standard Czech (by Stich, Alexandr); 6. Slang and Some Related Problems in Czech Linguistics (by Nekvapil, Jiri); 7. Publicist Style (by Chloupek, Jan); 8. Semantic Contexts in a Poetical Work (by Hausenblas, K.); 9. On the Stylistic Aspect of Coreferential Naming Chains (by Danes, Frantisek); 10. The Position of Verbless Clauses in the System of Means of Czech Functional Styles (by Soltys, Otakar); 11. On the Asymmetry between Syntactic and Elementary Textual Units (by Nekvapil, Jiri); 12. The Language and Style of Hasek's Novel "The Good Soldier Svejk" from the Viewpoint of Translation (by Danes, Frantisek); 13. Conversion of "Key Words" of English Song Lyrics into Czech (by Nekvapil, Jiri); 14. On the Concept of Language Culture (by Stich, Alexandr); 15. Rhetoric, Functional Stylistics and Theory of Language Culture (by Kraus, Jiri); 16. Epilogue: On the Way to a General Stylistics of Human Activity (by Nekvapil, Jiri); 17. List of Contributors; 18. Index of Names; 19. Subject Index