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"The first part of the book discusses the importance of Prague Structuralism for contemporary linguistics: the phonology of N.S. Trubetzkoy, the concepts of sign and neutralization in the work of Bohumil Trnka, and his influence on the theory of functional sentence perspective. It also traces contemporary developments of structuralist methodologies in pragmatics, morphology, and lexicology. The second part focuses on the legacy of the Prague school in the theories of poetic function, rhetoric, and translation. It assesses the relevance of structuralism for the present thought of difference, social systems and history, system theories and fictions in science and literature. The book is the first volume in the series ""Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities""."

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Dr. Martin Procházka is Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at Charles University in Prague and founding editor of the journal Litteraria Pragensia. Dr. Markéta Malá is Senior Lecturer of the English language and linguistics at Charles University in Prague. In her research she focuses on corpus-based and contrastive functional description of modern English grammar. Dr. Markéta Malá lehrt englische Sprache und Linguistik an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karlsuniversität zu Prag. Ihr Fachinteresse ist die Benutzung der Sprachkorpora in der kontrastiven funktionellen Beschreibung der modernen englischen Grammatik. Dr. Pavlína aldová is Senior Lecturer of the English Language and Linguistics and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Her areas of interest include English syntax, discourse analysis and contrastive functional linguistics. Dr. Pavlína aldová lehrt englische Sprache und Linguistik an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karlsuniversität zu Prag, wo sie ist die Vizedekanin.

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