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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965642803321

Titolo

Praguiana : some basic and less known aspects of the Prague Linguistic School / / selected, translated, and edited by Josef Vachek and Libuše Dušková ; with an introduction by Philip A. Luelsdorff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J.Benjamins, 1983

ISBN

1-283-32875-5

9786613328755

90-272-8039-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), , 0165-7712 ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

VachekJosef

DuškováLibuše

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Structural linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Errata slip inserted.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

PRAGUIANA SOME BASIC AND LESS KNOWN ASPECTS OF THE PRAGUE LINGUISTIC SCHOOL; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION BY THE GENERAL EDITOR OF THE SERIES; ON PRAGUIAN FUNCTIONALISM AND SOME EXTENSIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OF THE SCHOOL; ON THE POTENTIALITY OF THE PHENOMENA OF LANGUAGE; Notes; NEW CURRENTS AND TENDENCIES IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; NOTE; TRENDS IN PRESENT-DAY LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; NOTES; b) The tasks of the synchronistic method. Its relation to the diachronistic method

c) New possibilities of using the comparative method Consequences of the structural comparison of related languages; Regional unions; d) The regular interconnection of the facts of language development; 2. TASKS TO BE PERFORMED BY THE EXAMINATION OF THE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM, PARTICULARLY THE SLAVIC; a) Research on the phonic side of language; The importance of the acoustic side; The necessity of distinguishing the sound as an objective physical fact, as an idea, and as an element of the functional system; The basic tasks of synchronistic phonology; b) Theory of the word and word combinations



Theory of linguistic onomatology. The word Theory of functional syntax - combinations of words; Morphology (theory of systems of word-forms and word groups; 3. PROBLEMS OF RESEARCH INTO LANGUAGES OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS, ESPECIALLY SLAVIC; a) On the functions of language; b) On the standard literary language; c) On poetic language; 4. IMPORTANT PROBLEMS OF THE CHURCH SLAVIC LANGUAGE; 5. PROBLEMS OF PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL TRANSCRIPTION IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES; 6. PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY, ITS APPLICATION AND RELATION TO ETHNOGRAPHIC GEOGRAPHY IN THE SLAVIC TERRITORY

7. PROBLEMS OF AN ALL-SLAVIC LINGUISTIC ATLAS, PARTICULARLY IN THE LEXICON 8. PROBLEMS OF THE METHOD OF SLAVIC LEXICOGRAPHY; 9. THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS FOR THE CULTIVATION AND CRITICISM OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES; 10. EXPLOITATION OF NEW LINGUISTIC CURRENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS; a) In teaching the mother tongue; b) In teaching Slavic languages; NOTES; FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS; NOTES; LITERATURE; THE FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE STANDARD LANGUAGE; I. INTELLECTUAUZATION; II. AUTOMATIZATION AND FOREGROUNDING; NOTES; STANDARD LANGUAGE AND POETIC LANGUAGE; NOTES

ON QUESTIONS OF PHONOLOGICAL OPPOSITIONS NOTES; SOME REMARKS ON WRITING AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NOTES; LINGUISTICS AND THE IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE PERIOD; APPENDICES; Appendix I. ON SOME LESS KNOWN ASPECTS OF THE EARLY PRAGUE LINGUISTIC SCHOOL; Bibliography; Appendix II. REMARKS ON THE DYNAMISM OF THE SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE; Note; Bibliography; Appendix III. THE HERITAGE OF THE PRAGUE SCHOOL TO MODERN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH; NOTE; Bibliography; THE CZECH EDITOR'S POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; INDEX OF PERSONS; INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Sommario/riassunto

Contains key papers by the founders of the Prague School; including Vilém Mathesius famous article "Functional Linguistics" (1929), the theses presented at the First Congress of Slavists in Prague (1929), an earlier paper by Mathesius "On the potentiality of the phenomena of language" (1911), Jan Mukarovský's "Standard language and poetic language" (1932) and other historical contributions by B. Havránek, V. Skalicka, and B. Trnka.