Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Copenhagen School

The Copenhagen School, officially the "Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen" was a group of scholars dedicated to the study of structural linguistics founded by Louis Hjelmsley and Viggo Brondal. In the mid 20th century was one of the important centers of linguistic structuralism together with the Geneva School and the Prague School.

The Copenhagen School of Linguistics evolved around Louis Hjelmsley and his development theory of language glossematics. Together with Viggo Brondal he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhagen a group of linguistics based on the model of the Prague Linguistic Circle.


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