1. Functional linguistics:
The Prague School
practised a special style of synchronic linguistics.
Prague linguists
Looked at languages as a motor seeking to understand how the nature of one component
determine the nature of others.
Functional linguistics:
the Prague School

2. Members of Prague School Member of the Prague Linguistic Circle
Prince N.Trubetzkoy
( ).
Student of the Indo-European linguistics.
Book ´Principles of Phonology´
Roman O. Jakobson
Founding members of the Prague
Linguistic Circle; interested in the
Analysis of phonemes into their component features rather than in the distribution of
Phonemes.

3. Rules of Linguistic structure-Functional Sentence Perspective
Theme will precede rheme. In an inflective language.
Descriptivists tended to be suspicious of questions beginning with the word ´why´
Trubetzkoy = establishes a sophisticated system of phonological typology /what kind of phonological language has.
Members of the Prague School was well aware that the functions of speech are not limited to the expression of an explicit message.
Saussure´s view the difference between diachronic and synchronic linguistics.
Jakobson represents one of the very few personal links between European and American traditions of linguistics; his ideas change of direction that occurred in American linguistics over the last twenty years.

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2-The theme / rheme division will correspond to the
3 Who´s gives a central role to the phoneme
4. What´s the therapeutic theory of sound-change?
5.What is the most important aspect of Jakobson´s work?
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9. What is contrasted synchronic linguistics?
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8. Functional linguistics:
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They used the notions ´ phoneme ´ and ´morpheme ´
To the syntactic distinction between subject and predicate or
between subject—plus-transitive-verb and object.
Nikolai S. Trubetzkoy
Explained as the result of a striving towards a sort of ideal balance or resolution of various conflicting pressures:
Is his phonological theory
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The nature of science, but they are united in wanting to place linguistics firmly on the science side of the arts /science divide.
That the atomicity which Saussure attributes to ´diachronic ´
linguistics is not an intrinsic property opposed to ´synchronic linguistics.
9. Study of a system which the various elements derive their values from their mutual relationships.

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