Prague School linguistics is noted for its structural/functional approach to language-its attention, for instance, to the semantic-pragmatic function of language in communication. Almost anyone who works in functional linguistics has encountered, at the very least, occasional references to Prague School. Inde~d, some have found, as I have (e.g., Abraham 1995) that classical Praguian concepts, such as markedness and foregrounding, have been useful in their own research. This volume is a collection of papers that surveys the development of Prague School research from the early classical period to the present day. All of the writers represented in it have themselves contributed to this development. This collection consists of an introduction, eleven papers, a name index, and a subject index. The empirical domains covered range through phonology, morphology, lexicology, idiomatics, syntax, semantics, discourse, and typology.The first paper, Josef Vachek's "Phonology and graphemics" (13-43) is a brief survey of Praguian phonological and graphemic research during the early classical period. He discusses their use of both quantitative and qualitative data to explore issues such as the functional load of individual phonemes, and in so doing, points out the Praguian roots of such concepts as the phoneme. He suggests that classical Prague School thought continues to be a source of inspiration in such areas as graphemics and markedness.Miroslav 249 250 WORD, VOLUME 48, NUMBER 2 ( AUGUST, 1997) begins by discussing the early work of Trubetskoy, whose approach remains the core of the current approach. The discussion is then turned to work since 1945, such as that done by Dokulil, Komarek, Sgall, Leska, and others. Oldfich Leska's contribution, "Morphological categories in Prague School" (73-121), turns the focus to the development of the Praguian conception of grammar and grammatical categories. This paper looks at Mathesius' functionalist approach and Jacobson's structuralist approach, then shows how these complementary approaches (together with contributions from Skalicka, Trnka, and others) have developed into the current conception of morphological categories. The fourth contribution is Milos Dokulil's "The Prague School's theoretical and methodological contribution 'to word formation' (derivology)" (123-61). Dokulil surveys work in word formation theory, most of which was done in the latter half of this century. The paper sketches briefly the Praguian theory of word formation and the work based on it since 1962. The focus remains on the lexicon with Josef Filipec's "Lexicology and lexicography: Development and state of research" . This survey begins with the development of work on the lexicon by Mathesius, Jakobson, Trnka and others, and then continues through to Filipec's onomasiological approach in the sixties. The discussion then turns to a brief elaboration of lexicological theory, including discussions of semasiology (lexical semantics), lexical onomasiology (study of the formation of lexical designating units)...
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