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      History of LinguisticsStructuralism (Philosophy)Phonetics and PhonologyPrague School
belonged to the core of the Prague School and after the death of Vilém Mathesius he was even the president of the Prague Linguistic Circle. In spite of this he is almost unknown in the world. With the present volume, the authors wish -in... more
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      History of LinguisticsLanguages and LinguisticsLinguisticsHistory of Linguistic Thought
This book presents a selection of several articles that characterize the main strands of linguistic thinking of Czech functionalists, particularly with respect to the English language. Several classic and well-known papers are... more
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      History of LinguisticsFunctionalismHistory of Linguistic ThoughtFunctional Linguistics
The chapter provides an overview of proto-structuralist trends in various disciplines and fields and focuses on the most prominent developments in mid and late century structuralisms in Prague, Paris, Tartu and other centers. It also... more
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      SemioticsAnthropologyStructuralism (Literary Criticism)Phenomenology
Jiří Veltruský escribió su primer artículo como miembro del Círculo de Praga en 1940. Abandonó abandonar Checoslovaquia al caer el telón de acero y se trasladó a París, desde donde volvió a publicar ensayos sobre teatro para diversas... more
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      SemioticsTheatre StudiesPrague SchoolMukarovsky, Jan
Einleitung Noch F. Heberlein (1998) hat mit Bedauern festgehalten, dass die baltischen Sprachen nach wie vor überwiegend historisch-vergleichend untersucht werden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag möchten wir uns mit der Sprachtypologie des Litaui... more
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      Latvian LanguageLanguage TypologyLithuanian languagePrague School
The book tells about the destiny of historicism during the period when it had been definitely denied as an unsubstantiated scholarly approach belonging to the early 20th c. and when the literary historiography of structuralism had been... more
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      History of IdeasStructuralism (Literary Criticism)Literary CriticismLiterary Theory
This chapter focuses on important “prefigurations” of parts of linguistic pragmatics from the late nineteenth century to around 1970 which were informed by a “functional” view of language. We view “functional linguistics” as the study of... more
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      History of LinguisticsPragmaticsSystemic Functional LinguisticsHistory of Linguistic Thought
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      History of LinguisticsPragmaticsPrague SchoolKarl Bühler
This work first puts forth a brief history around Russian Formalism. The discussion of its history is punctuated with presentations of some of the core tenets of this intellectual movement. The paper then offers a discussion regarding the... more
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      Biblical StudiesLinguistic stylisticsRussian FormalismStructuralism
This paper presents the concepts of theme-rheme as discussed by the early Prague School and by Michael Halliday, and then, using the facts of Tagalog, argues that, unlike these two approaches, which conflate topic-comment and theme-rheme... more
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      Systemic Functional LinguisticsInformation structure (Languages And Linguistics)Information StructureTagalog Linguistics
Ústav filmu a audiovizuální kultury Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity Mukařovský, bordwell and the Notion of norm in neoformalist film poetics Litikon, 2019, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 341-356 může snad vyznít překvapivě, že ačkoli se v... more
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      Film StudiesFilm TheoryResearch MethodologyStructuralism (Literary Criticism)
This essay compares the evolution of the “Prague doctrine” described in Ondřej Sládek’s “The Metamorphoses of Prague School Structural Poetics” (2015) with similar developments in literary theory in Eastern Europe (from Russian formalism... more
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      Prague Linguistic CirclePrague SchoolExile StudiesCercle linguistique de Prague
This thesis is an investigation into the style of one of Australia’s greatest contemporary literary exports: Peter Carey. Carey is an acclaimed writer of fiction and is best known as an award-winning novelist, but before his first novel... more
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      StylisticsLiterary StylisticsNarratologyApplied Linguistics
Many questions remain open on the long stays in Italy of Joseph Heintz the elder (Basel 1564-Prague 1609), although it has been the subject of a rich bibliography that has extensively investigated his activities as draftsman, painter and... more
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      Michelangelo BuonarrotiPrague SchoolJoseph Heintz il GiovaneGiambologna
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      Philosophy Of LanguageJakobson, RomanStructuralismRussian linguistics
In 1579 Rudolf II envisaged the construction of a grand royal palace at Prague Castle, with an extensive sculptural programme that he undoubtedly planned to commission from Giambologna’s pupil Hans Mont. However, Rudolf shelved the... more
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      ArchitectureRenaissance StudiesGender and SexualityArchitectural History
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      Linguistic TypologyPrague SchoolRomani Language
The aim of the paper is to present the development of language planning from the perspective of the central current of western sociolinguistics, i.e. sociolinguistics from the Anglo-American world, in which the concept of language... more
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      SociolinguisticsLanguage ManagementLanguage policy and planningPrague School
Kdo se zabývá dějinami lingvistiky, nemohl nenarazit na jméno E. F. K. Koerner. Loni Koerner vydal další výbor ze svých textů. Ten je zvláštní tím, že jeho název Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography naznačuje-a autorova předmluva to... more
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      History of LinguisticsLanguagesLanguages and LinguisticsCzech & Slovak Studies
Jan Svankmajer’s cinematic animation of puppets and use of life-sized puppets renders a situation where animated objects have a dominant function that is separate from their pragmatic function. This plurality of function constitutes... more
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      SemioticsAnimationPuppetrySurrealism
In spite of the broad array of their interests and languages studied, linguists of the Prague Linguistic Circle, at least in its classical period (1926–1948), did not paid much theoretical attention to Chinese, with the exception of the... more
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      History of LinguisticsChinese linguisticsPrague School
*Academic Book Review* Jan Svankmajer – Dimension of Dialogue/ Between Film and Fine Art ed. Frantisek Dryje and Bertrand Schmitt. Revnice: Arbor Vitae, 2012. 508 pages. $49.95, paperback. Excerpt: The most interesting piece is perhaps... more
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      PuppetrySurrealismScenographyCzech & Slovak Studies
A paper on theatre semiotics - objects/props on the stage, published more than 30 years ago in "The Prague School and its Legacy in Linguistics, Literature, Semiotics, Folklore and the Arts", ed. Y. Tobin, John Benjamins BV Publishing... more
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      SemioticsVisual StudiesPerforming ArtsTheatre Studies
The aim of this work is to highlight the non-homogeneous character and the different cultural and scientific components of the Prague Circle functionalstructuralism. The two fundamental groups that interacted with each other – sometimes... more
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      History of LinguisticsFunctionalismPrague School
Sono indicate di seguito correzioni e brevi aggiunte relative agli argomenti trattati nell'articolo, e raccolte dopo la sua pubblicazione («RIASA», 76, 2021, pp. 213-256).
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      Giambologna, Florence, sculpturePrague SchoolJacopo Palma il GiovaneJoseph Heintz il Giovane
This paper analyses the influence of the Prague School literary theory on Milan Kundera’s Essays on the European novel. Along with the literary thoughts introduced by the author in his novels, Kundera has published his reflections on the... more
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      Theory of the NovelMilan KunderaThe Critical Reflective EssayEssays
Western Humanities Review; Winter2009, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p43
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      HistoricismLiterary TheoryRussian FormalismFrederic Jameson
In the late 1960s, Yuri Lotman, a founder of the Tartu-Moscow Scool of Semiotics, prepared, in coperation with his colleagues, a two-volume edition of selected writings of Jan Mukařovský, a founder of Czech literary structuralism and... more
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      Structuralism (Literary Criticism)StructuralismYuri LotmanPrague School
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      History of LinguisticsLanguages and LinguisticsCzech & Slovak StudiesLinguistics
Discusses Jakobson's book on diachrony and the assumptions he made. Relative chronology portrayed in metaphors of conflict.
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      Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Slavic Historical LinguisticsEast Slavic Historical LinguisticsJakobson, Roman
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      SemioticsIntellectual HistoryCultural HistoryPhilosophy
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      EthnographyStructuralismEtnographyEtnografía
The author of this study deals with the transition made by Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975) and Felix Vodička (1909–1974) from structuralism to Marxism and the forms of both theorists’ postwar and post-1948 thinking. It comes out against those... more
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      MarxismStructuralism (Literary Criticism)History of Literary CriticismEpistemology of the Social Sciences
The present article deals with the concept of the goal-oriented linguistic model developed by the Prague Linguistic Circle and presented in the Prague Theses (1929) as linguistic “purposefulness”. This approach is often classified as a... more
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      TeleologyStructuralismGeneral linguisticsPrague School
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      Latin American StudiesSpanish LiteratureLanguages and LinguisticsLiterary Criticism
This book chapter focuses on important “prefigurations” of parts of linguistic pragmatics from the late nineteenth century to around 1970 which were informed by a “functional” view of language. We view “functional linguistics” as the... more
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      History of LinguisticsSystemic Functional LinguisticsPragmatics, Philosophy of Language and communicationPrague School
Eine von Simon Frisius radierte und von Hendrick Hondius herausgegebene Folge zum Leben Christi von der Anbetung der Könige bis zum Einzug in Jerusalem zeigt im letzten Blatt bislang unerkannt die Prager Burg als Jerusalem, in das Jesus... more
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      17th Century Netherlandish ArtThirty Years' WarRudolphine PraguePolitical Iconography
Jan Mukarovski (d.11 Kasım 1891- öl.8 Şubat 1975) 1926’da kurulan Prag Yapısalcı ekolünün en verimli üyelerinden birisidir. Mukarovski Türk bilim çevrelerinde pek tanınmaz. Fakat o, özellikle edebiyat teorileri sahasındaki... more
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      Prague SchoolJan Mukařovský
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      Performance StudiesTheater and filmDramatic Theory and CriticismPrague School
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      HistoryLanguages and LinguisticsHistoriographyLinguistics
The study deals with Oleg Sus’ aesthetic thought and his immanent critique of Jan Mukařovský’s concep-tion of structuralism. In Oleg Sus’ opinion, Mukařovský’s concept of structure as a set of antinomic relations between elements leads to... more
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      PoststructuralismJacques Derrida & DeconstructionMarxist Literary TheoryPrague School
International Conference Roman Jakobson: Linguistics and Poetics Conférence Internationale Roman Jakobson: Linguistique et poétique Международная Конференция Роман Якобсон: Лингвистика и Поэтика Convegno Internazionale Roman Jakobson:... more
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      Structuralism (Literary Criticism)PoeticsLiterary TheoryLinguistics
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      History of LinguisticsDiachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics)Languages and LinguisticsHistorical Linguistics
Following the strong program in cultural sociology, I propose a “literary turn” to recognize literary texts “as relatively autonomous cultural entities” with their own agency. This article is part of a larger project connecting cultural... more
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      Social TheoryCultural SociologySociology of LiteraturePost-Communism
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      History of LinguisticsLanguages and LinguisticsLinguisticsHistoriography of Linguistics
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      History of LinguisticsLanguages and LinguisticsLinguisticsHistory of Linguistic Thought
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      Language TypologyLinguistic TypologyGeneral linguisticsPrague School
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      History of LinguisticsLanguagesLanguages and LinguisticsLinguistics