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Literary semiotics --- Art --- Semiotics and the arts. --- Prazsky linguisticky krouzek --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga --- Semiotics and the arts --- Arts and semiotics --- Arts --- Pražský linguistický kroužek.

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The aim of this volume is to witness how the activities of the Prague School have continued to bring important new insights and discussions between the 1940's and the present time. Contributions are included which have escaped attention on an international scale because they were published in Czech; several papers have been written especially for this volume. The contributions cover various domains: syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics, graphemics, the language system, the lexicon, and contrastive linguistics.

Structural linguistics --- Prazsky linguisticky krouzek --- Structural linguistics. --- Linguistics [Structural ] --- Linguistique structurale --- Linguïstiek [Structurele ] --- Structurele linguïstiek --- Structurele taalwetenschap --- Taalwetenschap [Structurele ] --- Linguistics --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga --- Pražský linguistický kroužek.

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Driven by a common desire to form a new basis for understanding the sources and functioning of language, a heterogeneous group of Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and German scholars who found themselves living in Prague in the mid 1920's created the profoundly influential Prague Linguistic Circle. This book examines the historical factors that produced the Circle, the basic tenets that it promulgated, and, most important, the social and cultural environment in which it flourished. The book can also be read as an interlocking series of intellectual biographies of the Prague Circle's major figures. The new linguistics, whose core was to be phonology, emphasized synchronic analysis, anti-psychologism, anti-causalism, the investigation of language contact, and the understanding of language as a social institution. Significantly, the Circle's theories were strongly connected to and reflected by Prague's literary and artistic avant-garde. The book is based on extensive archival research in Czech, Russian, and German sources. Jindrich Toman is especially adept at showing how characteristics of the spirit of the age, such as the ideal of collective activity, the idea of a synthesis of knowledge, and an emphasis on a socially defined commitment to scholarship, became embedded in the Prague Circle's program. It was Roman Jakobson, the best-known member, who broadcast the Circle's activities to a wider world; however, Toman also focuses on several of Jakobson's colleagues who deserve equal appreciation - in particular the Russian prince and phonologist N.S. Trubetzkoy and the Czech professor of English and academic reformer Vilem Mathesius.

Pražský linguistický kroužek. --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga

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The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity and then finally all of culture, which the Circle conceived of as a structure of sign systems. Semiotics was thus the overarching discipline for the Prague School, serving to organize all phenomena shared and exchanged by a cultural community. In recent years increasing attention has been paid to the importance of the Prague School, but writing about it has frequently been marred by misconceptions. The central aim of this volume is to correct those misconceptions and to present the diversity of interests within the Prague School—literary criticism, linguistics, theory of theater, folklore, and philosophy. These essays by Bogatyrëv, Jakobson, Karcevskij, Mukařovský, Rieger, Vodička, and Honzl are here translated into English for the first time. Some have a special historical value in illuminating critical stages of structuralist thinking; others reveal the timeliness of the School's contributions for the theoretical conflicts of our day. Each essay is accompanied by an informative introductory note, and the whole is followed by the editor's "Postscript," tracing the roots of structuralist aesthetics.

Structural linguistics. --- Semiotics. --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Pražský linguistický kroužek. --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Linguistics --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga

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This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs, by well over 30 representatives of the school (Mathesius, Trnka, Skalička, Daneš, Dokulil, Mukařovský, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Isachenko, and others). The dictionary both captures the pioneering efforts and achievements of the school from its foundation in 1926, and provides a framework for assessing the current state of affairs, attesting to its originality and serving as a preventive to treading paths already explored. The headword concepts are provided with French, German and Czech equivalents and Vachek's original preface is supplemented by a foreword which traces the development of the school up to the present date and puts it into perspective.

Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Pražský linguistický kroužek --- Prague Linguistic Circle --- Linguistic Circle, Prague --- Linguistický kroužek (Prague, Czechoslovakia) --- Cercle linguistique, Prague --- C.L.P. (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prazhskiĭ lingvisticheskiĭ kruzhok --- CLP (Cercle linguistique, Prague) --- Prague School --- Prague (Czechoslovakia). --- Circolo linguistico di Praga --- Scuola di Praga --- #KVHA:Linguistiek. Woordenboeken; verklarende --- 800 <03> --- 800 <03> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Lingüística estructural --- -Linguistic science --- Diccionarios --- Prazsky linguisticky krouzek --- Dictionaries --- -Diccionarios