Main description:
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 Mukaovský's 'Standard language and poetic language' (1932) and other historical contributions by B. Havránek, V. Skalika, and B. Trnka.
Table of contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction by the General Editor of the Series
- On Praguian Functionalism and Some Extensions
- The Classical Period of the School
- On the Potentiality of the Phenomena of Language
- New Currents and Tendencies in Linguistic Research
- Trends in Present-Day Linguistic Research
- Prague Linguistic Circle
- Functional Linguistics
- The Functional Differentiation of the Standard Language
- Standard Language and Poetic Language
- On Questions of Phonological Oppositions
- Some Remarks on Writing and Phonetic Transcription
- Linguistics and the Ideological Structure of the Period
- Appendices
- On Some Less Known Aspects of the Early Prague Linguistic School
- Remarks on the Dynamism of the System of Language
- The Heritage of the Prague School to Modern Linguistic Research
- The Czech Editor's Postscript
- Indexes of Persons and Subjects
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 Mukaovský's 'Standard language and poetic language' (1932) and other historical contributions by B. Havránek, V. Skalika, and B. Trnka.
Table of contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction by the General Editor of the Series
- On Praguian Functionalism and Some Extensions
- The Classical Period of the School
- On the Potentiality of the Phenomena of Language
- New Currents and Tendencies in Linguistic Research
- Trends in Present-Day Linguistic Research
- Prague Linguistic Circle
- Functional Linguistics
- The Functional Differentiation of the Standard Language
- Standard Language and Poetic Language
- On Questions of Phonological Oppositions
- Some Remarks on Writing and Phonetic Transcription
- Linguistics and the Ideological Structure of the Period
- Appendices
- On Some Less Known Aspects of the Early Prague Linguistic School
- Remarks on the Dynamism of the System of Language
- The Heritage of the Prague School to Modern Linguistic Research
- The Czech Editor's Postscript
- Indexes of Persons and Subjects