Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication . By Jan Firbas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 239. Cloth $54.95.

Preface List of abbreviations Part I. Functional Sentence Perspective in Written Communication: 1. Introduction 2. The sentence and the carriers of communicative dynamism 3. The contextual factor 4. The semantic factor 5. The theme and the non-theme 6. Some special issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective 7. Word order and functional sentence perspective Part II. Functional Sentence Perspective in Spoken Communication 8. Non-prosodic distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence 9. Some more observations on the relationship between the non-prosodic distribution of communicative dynamism and that of prosodic prominence 10. Analyses of two spoken texts 11. Some special issues concerning functional sentence perspective in the spoken language References Index.