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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
*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
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
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
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
Western Humanities Review; Winter2009, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p43
Discusses Jakobson's book on diachrony and the assumptions he made. Relative chronology portrayed in metaphors of conflict.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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