The magic of a common language : Jakobson, Mathesius, Trubetzkoy, and the Prague Linguistic Circle /

Driven by a common desire to form a new basis for understanding the sources and functioning of language, a heterogeneous group of Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and German scholars who found themselves living in Prague in the mid 1920's created the profoundly influential Prague Linguistic Circle. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Toman, Jindrich
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
Series:Current studies in linguistics series ; 26.
Subjects:
Pražský linguistický kroužek.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Praagse school.
Electronic books.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mathesius's Problem
  • 2. The Linguist Is a Futurist: Roman Jakobson's Formative Years
  • 3. "The Other Circumstances": Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Revolution
  • 4. Vilem Mathesius: In Search of a New Linguistics
  • 5. Intermezzo: Jakobson and Mathesius in the Early 1920's
  • 6. A Republic of Scholars: Elements of Cross-Cultural Integration in Interwar Prague
  • 7. The Magic of a Common Language
  • 8. Un'organizzazione combattiva
  • 9. The Rhetoric of Modernity: More on Ideals of Scholarship and Ideals of Society
  • 10. Russian Images of the Whole: Trubetzkoy, Sprachbund, and Eurasia
  • 11. The Linguist Remains a Futurist: Roman Jakobson and the Czech Avant-Garde
  • 12. Epilogues.

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