Praguiana

some basic and less known aspects of the Prague linguistic school

Josef Vachek, Libuše Dušková

Contains key papers by the founders of the Prague School; including Vilém Mathesius famous article “Functional Linguistics” (1929), the theses presented at the First Congress of Slavists in Prague (1929), an earlier paper by Mathesius “On the potentiality of the phenomena of language” (1911), Jan Mukařovský's “Standard language and poetic language” (1932) and other historical contributions by B. Havránek, V. Skalička, and B. Trnka.

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3-44

On the potentiality of the phenomena of language

Mathesius Vilém

77-120

Theses presented to the First Congress of Slavists held in Prague in 1929

Prague Linguistic Circle