The Prague School and Its Legacy

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Yishai Tobin

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Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open, flexible, adaptable, and abstract system of systems used by human beings to communicate. This hommage to the Prague School presents papers in five areas of research:- Prague School phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications, — The Prague School and functional discourse analysis, — The Prague School and aspects of literary criticism, — The sociological and ethnographical concerns of the Prague School, — The Prague School's semiotic approach to the arts.

[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/llsee.27

Table of Contents

Contributors | p. xi

Introduction

Yishai Tobin | p. xiii

I. Prague school phonology and its theoretical and methodological implications

Functional load and diachronic phonology

John C. Catford | p. 3

Distinctive features in synchronic and diachronic phonology

Anatoly Liberman | p. 21

From segments to autosegments: Nasalization in Sudanese

Robert M. Vago | p. 37

Phonetics versus phonology: The prague school and beyond

Yishai Tobin | p. 49

II. The Prague school and functional discourse analysis

The discoursal iz of Yiddish

Zelda Kahan-Newman | p. 73

Frequency in communicative perspective: Some word order phenomena in Spanish

Florimon C.M. van Putte | p. 91

Paradigmatic structure and syntactic relations

Cornelis H. van Schooneveld | p. 109

Word order in children’s literature: FSP and markedness

Yael Ziv | p. 123

Topic-chaining and dominance chaining

Nomi Erteschik-Shir | p. 145

The theme in text cohesion

Dennis Kurzon | p. 155

III. The Prague school and aspects of literary criticism

Literary transduction: Prague school approach

Lubomir Dolezel | p. 165

Dominant = tonic + dominant

Hana Arie-Gaifman | p. 177

James Joyce and the Prague school: Aesthetic foregrouding in Finnegan’s Wake

S.A. Henke | p. 185

Objective features of text-analysis according to Mukařovský

G. Moked | p. 193

Phonology as a pattern of analysis: The deep message of the thrillers by Ambrose Bierce

Maria M. Langleben | p. 205

IV. The sociological and ethnological concerns of the Prague school

The sociological concerns of the Prague school

Ladislav Matejka | p. 219

From folklore to folkstyle: The Prague circle’s contribution to the ethnoinquiries

Charles D. Kaplan | p. 227

The relevance of structuralism to the study of nonverbal behavior

Walburga von Raffler-Engel | p. 245

V. The Prague school’s semiotic approach to the arts

The dialectic functioning of Mukařovský’s semiotic model

Claude Gandelman | p. 265

A chair is a chair is a CHAIR: The object as sign in the theatrical performance

F. Rokem | p. 275

Semiotics of the theatre: The Prague school heritage

Dinnah Pladott | p. 289

Name index | p. 305

Subject index | p. 311

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