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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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The fourth volume of the revived series of "Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague" brings three contributions (by J. Vachek, O. Leška and V. Skalička) connected with the classical period of the Prague School, as well as papers delivered at the conference "Function, Form, and Meaning: Bridges and Interfaces", held in Prague in 1998. Some of the contributions concern issues of grammar of different languages including a syntactic annotation of a large Czech text corpus, a comparison of Hebrew conditionals with English, a characterization of the typology of the Indo-European verb. A further part focuses on topic-focus articulation (information sentence structure, functional sentence perspective), with a concept of 'perspective' introduced as close to but distinct from 'topic' and with three different viewpoints on the semantics of information structure. Two broader essays on the nature of language are then presented, while the last section analyzes the structure of free verse. The volume represents a contribution to the continuing fruitful interaction between the work of the Prague School and the more and less closely related approaches of linguists in other countries.

Structural linguistics. --- Functionalism (Linguistics) --- Functional analysis (Linguistics) --- Functional grammar --- Functional linguistics --- Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Functional --- Grammatical functions --- Linguistics --- Structural linguistics --- 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 --- Pražský linguistický kroužek.