Prague Linguistic Circle

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The Prague Linguistic Circle was an influential early 20th-century school of linguistic and literary theory known for developing structuralism and functional approaches to language.

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instanceOf linguistic school
research group
activeInCentury 20th century
activeInPeriod interwar period
alsoKnownAs Cercle linguistique de Prague NERFINISHED
Prague School of Linguistics NERFINISHED
Pražský lingvistický kroužek NERFINISHED
approach functionalism
city Prague NERFINISHED
country Czechoslovakia
field linguistics
literary theory
semiotics
focus functional approach to language
literary structure
phonology
phonology as a system of oppositions
poetics
semiotic structure of texts
stylistics
foundedInDecade 1920s
foundedInPeriod late 1920s
hasMember Benedikt Kurylowicz NERFINISHED
Bohumil Trnka NERFINISHED
Bohuslav Havránek NERFINISHED
Felix Vodička NERFINISHED
Jan Mukařovský NERFINISHED
Josef Vachek NERFINISHED
Nikolai Trubetzkoy NERFINISHED
Rene Wellek NERFINISHED
René Wellek NERFINISHED
Roman Jakobson NERFINISHED
Sergei Karcevskij NERFINISHED
Vilém Mathesius NERFINISHED
influenced European structuralism
Prague School phonology NERFINISHED
functional linguistics
literary theory in Central Europe
modern phonology
semiotics of literature
influencedBy Russian Formalism NERFINISHED
Saussurean linguistics
keyConcept aesthetic function of language
foregrounding in literature
functional sentence perspective
markedness
phonological oppositions
theme–rheme structure
languageOfWork Czech
French
German
Russian
movement structuralism
publication Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague NERFINISHED

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Roman Jakobson memberOf Prague Linguistic Circle
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay influenced Prague Linguistic Circle
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Sprachtheorie influenced Prague Linguistic Circle
this entity surface form: Prague linguistic circle
functional theory of language associatedWith Prague Linguistic Circle
this entity surface form: Prague School linguistics