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Contributions of The Prague School

The Prague Linguistic represented an important moment in the development of
phonology, structuralism and linguistics in general and it prepared the grounds for research and
the subsequent evolution of linguistics. The paper attempts a general view on what The Prague
School meant for linguistics and it aims at giving a general survey on the activity and on the
contributions brought by The Prague Linguistic Circle.It focuses on the novelty which the most
important members of the Prague Linguistic Circle brought to linguistics and it points out the
importance of the Prague School moment in the history of linguistics.
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being and properly started its activity in 1926, the
official year of its members`first meeting and the ”so-called” classical period in the activity of the
circle.


The circle`s roots can be dated back as far as 1911
when Vilém Mathésius, who was to become an important member of the circle, independently of
and without having any connection with Ferdinand de Saussure, predicted the synchronic study of
language. The preoccupations and the research of its members did not emerge out of nothing, they
set out with a solid foundation behind them. The forerunners of The Prague Linguistic Circle had
been Ferdinand de Saussure`s “Course in General Linguistics” and the Moscow Linguistic Circle,
founded in 1915.

some members of The Prague School

Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Roman Jackobson

The Prague School

The Prague School was an influential group of literary critics and linguists in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis during the years 1928–1939. It has had significant continuing influence on linguistics and semiotics. After World War II, the circle was disbanded but the Prague School continued as a major force in linguistic functionalism (distinct from the Copenhagen school or English Firthian — later Hallidean — linguistics). American scholar Dell Hymes cites his 1962 paper, "The Ethnography of Speaking," as the formal introduction of Prague functionalism to American linguistic anthropology.

The Prague linguistic circle included Russian émigrés such as Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech literary scholars René Wellek and Jan Mukařovský. The instigator of the circle and its first president was the eminent Czech linguist Vilém Mathesius
The group's work before World War II was published in the Travaux Linguistiques and its theses outlined in a collective contribution to the World's Congress of Slavists. The Travaux were briefly resurrected in the 1960s with a special issue on the concept of center and periphery and are now being published again by John Benjamins. The group's Czech work is published in Slovo a slovesnost. English translations of the Circle's seminal works were published by the Czech linguist Josef Vachek in several collections..