Prague school, school of linguistic thought and analysis established in Prague in the 1920's by Vilem Mathesius
It included among its most prominent members the Russian linguistic Nikolay Trubetskoy and the Russian born American linguistic Roman Jokobson the school was most active during the 1920's and 1930's.
Linguistics of the Prague School stress the function of elements within language, the contrast of elements to one another, and the total pattern or system formed by these contrasts, and they have distinguished themselves in the study of sound systems.
The members of the Prague School thought of language as a whole as serving a purpose.
They tryed to go beyond description to explanations, saying not just what languages were like but why they were the way they were.
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