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Prague linguistic circle

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The Prague school or Prague linguistic circle was an influential group of linguists, philologists and literary critics in Prague. [1]

57 relations: Aleksandar Belić, Alf Sommerfelt, André Martinet, Anton Marty, Austin Warren, Émile Benveniste, Bohuslav Havránek, Copenhagen School (linguistics), Czech studies, Czechs, Daniel Jones (phonetician), Dell Hymes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Functional theories of grammar, George Steiner, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Firbas, Jan Mukařovský, Jaroslav Peregrin, Jaroslav Vacek, Jiří Levý, Jože Toporišič, Joseph Greenberg, Karl Bühler, Ladislav Matějka, Linguistics, Literary criticism, Louis Hjelmslev, Lubomír Doležel, Lucien Tesnière, Markedness, Michael Halliday, Michael Silverstein, Miroslav Komárek, Moscow linguistic circle, Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Noam Chomsky, OPOJAZ, Ostensive definition, Philology, Postcolonialism, Prague, René Wellek, Roman Jakobson, Russian formalism, Semiotic literary criticism, Semiotics, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slavic studies, Slovo a slovesnost, ..., Structuralist film theory, Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, Valentin Voloshinov, Viktor Shklovsky, Vilém Mathesius, Vladimír Skalička, 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. Expand index (7 more) »

Aleksandar Belić

Aleksandar Belić (or; August 15, 1876 – February 26, 1960) was a Serbian linguist.

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Alf Sommerfelt

Alf Sommerfelt (November 23, 1892October 12, 1965), was a Norwegian linguist and the first professor of linguistics in Norway, working at the University of Oslo from 1931 to 1962.

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André Martinet

André Martinet (Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 – Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics.

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Anton Marty

Martin Anton Maurus Marty (18 October 18471 October 1914) was a Swiss-born Austrian philosopher.

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Austin Warren

Austin Warren (July 4, 1899 – August 20, 1986) was an American literary critic, author, and professor of English.

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Émile Benveniste

Émile Benveniste (27 March 1902 – 3 October 1976) was a French structural linguist and semiotician.

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Bohuslav Havránek

Bohuslav Havránek (January 30, 1893, Prague – March 2, 1978, Prague) was a Czech linguist and member of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

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Copenhagen School (linguistics)

The Copenhagen School, officially the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen (French: Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague), is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of linguistics.

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Czech studies

Bohemistics, also known as Czech studies, is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates Czech language and literature in both its historic and present-day forms.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

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Daniel Jones (phonetician)

Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris).

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Dell Hymes

Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927 in Portland, OregonNovember 13, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.

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Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist and semiotician.

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Functional theories of grammar

Functional theories of grammar are those approaches to the study of language that see functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures.

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George Steiner

Francis George Steiner, FBA (born April 23, 1929) is a French-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator.

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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.

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Jan Firbas

Jan Firbas (25 March 1921 in Brno – 5 May 2000 in Brno), was a Czech linguist and a prominent representative of the Prague School of linguistics.

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Jan Mukařovský

Jan Mukařovský (11 November 1891 – 8 February 1975) was a Czech literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theorist.

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Jaroslav Peregrin

Jaroslav Peregrin (born 1957) is a professor of logic at Charles University in Prague and also a faculty member at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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Jaroslav Vacek

Jaroslav Vacek (26 June 1943 – 23 January 2017) was director of the Institute of South and Central Asia and former dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague, where he founded the teaching and research of Mongolian as a new subject.

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Jiří Levý

Jiří Levý (1926–1967) was a Czech literary theoretician, literary historian and translation theoretician.

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Jože Toporišič

Jože Toporišič (October 11, 1926 – December 9, 2014) was a leading Slovene linguist.

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Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

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Karl Bühler

Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist.

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Ladislav Matějka

Ladislav Matějka (May 30, 1919 in České Budějovice – September 29, 2012 in West Newton, Massachusetts) was a Czech scholar of semiotics and linguistic theory, who translated and published many contributions to Prague linguistic circle theory.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Louis Hjelmslev

Louis Trolle Hjelmslev (3 October 1899, Copenhagen – 30 May 1965, Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics.

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Lubomír Doležel

Lubomír Doležel (born October 3, 1922, Lesnice, died January 28, 2017, Verona, Italy) was a Czech literary theorist, and one of the founders of the so-called fictional worlds theory.

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Lucien Tesnière

Lucien Tesnière (May 13, 1893 – December 6, 1954) was a prominent and influential French linguist.

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Markedness

In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form.

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Michael Halliday

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist who developed the internationally influential ''systemic functional linguistic'' SFL model of language.

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Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein (born 1945) is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago.

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Miroslav Komárek

Miroslav Komárek (20 April 1924 – 15 August 2013) was a Czech historical linguist and professor emeritus of the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc.

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Moscow linguistic circle

The Moscow linguistic circle was a group of social scientists in semiotics, literary theory, and linguistics active in Moscow from 1915 to ca.

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Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (p; Moscow, April 16, 1890 – Vienna, June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist.

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OPOJAZ

OPOJAZ (ОПОЯЗ) (Общество изучения Поэтического Языка, Obščestvo izučenija POètičeskogo JAZyka, "Society for the Study of Poetic Language") was a prominent group of linguists and literary critics in St. Petersburg founded in 1916 and dissolved by the early 1930s.

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Ostensive definition

An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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René Wellek

René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 11, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic.

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Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н; October 11, 1896Kucera, Henry. 1983. "Roman Jakobson." Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America 59(4): 871–883. – July 18,, compiled by Stephen Rudy 1982) was a Russian–American linguist and literary theorist.

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Russian formalism

Russian formalism was a school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s.

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Semiotic literary criticism

Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics.

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Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Српска академија наука и уметности/Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, abbr. САНУ/SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841.

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Slavic studies

Slavic studies (North America), Slavonic studies (Britain and Ireland) or Slavistics (borrowed from Russian славистика or Polish slawistyka) is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture.

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Slovo a slovesnost

Slovo a slovesnost ("The word and verb"), is a Czech linguistic scholarly journal published four times a year by the Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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Structuralist film theory

Structuralist film theory is a branch of film theory that is rooted in structuralism, itself based on structural linguistics.

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Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School

The Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School is a scientific school of thought in the field of semiotics that was formed in 1964 and led by Juri Lotman.

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Valentin Voloshinov

Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov (Валенти́н Никола́евич Воло́шинов; June 18, 1895, St. Petersburg – June 13, 1936, Leningrad) was a Soviet/Russian linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology.

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Viktor Shklovsky

Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (p; – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer.

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Vilém Mathesius

Vilém Mathesius (3 August 1882, Pardubice – 12 April 1945, Prague) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle.

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Vladimír Skalička

Vladimír Skalička (19 August 1909 – 17 January 1991) was a Czech professor, linguist, translator, and polyglot.

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1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état

The 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état (often simply the Czech coup) (Únor 1948, Február 1948, both meaning "February 1948") – in Marxist historiography known as "Victorious February" (Vítězný únor, Víťazný február) – was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia, marking the onset of four decades of communist rule in the country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_linguistic_circle

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