The Copenhagen School is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of linguistics , centered around Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) and the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen ( French : Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague , Danish : Lingvistkredsen ), founded by him and Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942). In the mid twentieth century the Copenhagen school was one of the most important centres of linguistic structuralism together with the Geneva School and the Prague School . In the late 20th and early 21st century the Copenhagen school has turned from a purely structural approach to linguistics to a functionalist one, Danish functional linguistics , which nonetheless incorporates many insights from the founders of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen.
21-460: [REDACTED] Look up functionalism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Functionalism may refer to: Functionalism (architecture) , the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building Functionalism in international relations , a theory that arose during the inter-War period Functional linguistics ,
42-471: A formal system, and an important part of this was the development of precise terminology to describe the different parts of linguistic systems and their interrelatedness. The basic theoretical framework, called “ Glossematics ” was laid out in Hjelmslev’s two main works: Prolegomena to a theory of Language and Résumé of a theory of Language. However, since Hjelmslev's death in 1965 left his theories mostly on
63-625: A theoretical approach to the study of language Functionalism (philosophy of mind) , a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy Functionalism versus intentionalism , a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust Structural functionalism , a theoretical tradition within sociology and anthropology Biological functionalism , an anthropological paradigm See also [ edit ] Danish functional linguistics Functional (disambiguation) Functional psychology Neofunctionalism Topics referred to by
84-639: A theory that arose during the inter-War period Functional linguistics , a theoretical approach to the study of language Functionalism (philosophy of mind) , a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy Functionalism versus intentionalism , a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust Structural functionalism , a theoretical tradition within sociology and anthropology Biological functionalism , an anthropological paradigm See also [ edit ] Danish functional linguistics Functional (disambiguation) Functional psychology Neofunctionalism Topics referred to by
105-421: A while". The Expression plane consists of "the book" which is a noun phrase with a determiner, a finite verb with a negational adverb "hasn't", and a passive verbal phrase "been read" with an agent "by anyone" and a time adverb "for a while". On the content plane "the book" has the function of topic of the utterance, that which the sentence is about and which links it to the larger discourse, the function of "hasn't"
126-498: Is an academic journal run in collaboration with the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. It was started in 1939 by Viggo Brøndal and Louis Hjelmslev and originally focused on structural linguistics . Editors have included Peter Harder , Hartmut Haberland and Lars Heltoft . The school of Danish functional linguistics (DFL) was developed in an attempt to combine modern functional grammar and cognitive linguistics with
147-454: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages functionalism [REDACTED] Look up functionalism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Functionalism may refer to: Functionalism (architecture) , the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building Functionalism in international relations ,
168-561: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Danish functional linguistics The Copenhagen School of Linguistics evolved around Louis Hjelmslev and his developing theory of language , glossematics . Together with Viggo Brøndal he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague in 1931, a group of linguists based on the model of the Prague Linguistic Circle . Within
189-416: Is not to be analysed from the minimal units and up, but rather from the maximal units and down, because speakers begin the construction of utterances by choosing what to say in a given situation, then by choosing the words to use and finally by building the sentence by means of sounds. An example of a two planed analysis is given below in the analysis of the utterance "The book hasn't been read by anyone for
210-540: The School of Danish Functional Grammar aiming to combine the ideas of Hjelmslev and Brøndal, and other important Danish linguists such as Paul Diderichsen and Otto Jespersen with modern functional linguistics. Among the prominent members of this new generation of the Copenhagen School of Linguistics were Peter Harder , Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen , Frans Gregersen , Una Canger and Michael Fortescue . The basic work of
231-465: The best ideas and concepts of the earlier structuralist school. Like Hjelmslev and Saussure, the approach insists on the basic structural division of communication in planes of content and expression. Like Simon Dik and functionalist grammarians, Danish functionalists also insist that language is fundamentally a means of communication between humans and is best understood and analysed through its communicative function. When analysing linguistic utterances,
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#1732895305191252-422: The circle the ideas of Brøndal and Hjelmslev were not always compatible. Hjelmslev’s more formalist approach attracted a group of followers, principal among them Hans Jørgen Uldall and Eli Fischer-Jørgensen , who would strive to apply Hjelmslev's abstract ideas of the nature of language to analyses of actual linguistic data. Hjelmslev’s objective was to establish a framework for understanding communication as
273-482: The communication of deaf), and he was interested in a general theory of the signs of communication, semiotics or semiology . More than the other schools, the Glossematic School referred to the teachings of Saussure , even though it was in many aspects connected with older traditions. Thus, it tried once more to combine logics and grammar. At any rate, Hjelmslev has taken over the psychological interpretation of
294-430: The content and expression planes are analysed separately, with the expression plane being analysed through traditional structural methods and the content plane being analysed mostly through methods from semantics and pragmatics . However, it is assumed that structures on the expression plane mirror structures on the content plane. This can be seen in the parallelism between the structure of Danish sentences as described by
315-426: The key figure of Copenhagen School in the 1930s, a formal linguistic fundament, which was later known as glossematics (the double duality of the linguistic sign). He formulated his linguistic theory together with Hans Jørgen Uldall as an attempt to analyse the expression (phonetics and grammar) and the meaning of a language on a coherent basis. He assumed that language was not the only instrument of communication (cf.
336-437: The linguistic sign and thereby extended his study of the sign further than language as such. The principal ideas of the school are: Even more than Saussure, the Copenhagen School is interested in the langue rather than parole . It represented in a pure form the idea that language is a form and not a substance. It studied the relational system within the language on a higher level of abstraction. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
357-484: The programmatic level, the group that had formed around Hjelmslev and his glossematic theory dispersed—while the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle continued to exist, it was not really a "school" united by a common theoretical perspectives. In 1989, a group of members of the Copenhagen Linguistic Circle, inspired by the advances in cognitive linguistics and the functionalist theories of Simon C. Dik founded
378-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Functionalism . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Functionalism&oldid=1111345385 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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420-466: The school is Dansk Funktionel Grammatik (Danish Functional Grammar) by Harder (2006). Recent developments in the school include Ole Nedergaard Thomsen’s Functional Discourse Pragmatics . In the following the two stages of the Copenhagen School will be described as 1. The glossematic school and 2. Danish functional linguistics. Brøndal emphasised that formal properties of a system should be kept apart from its substance. Accordingly, Hjelmslev presented, as
441-407: The structural syntactic model of Paul Diderichsen dividing utterances into three basic fields: a foundation field, a nexus field and a content field; and the pragmatic structure of utterances that often uses the foundation field for discourse pragmatic functions, the nexus field for illocutionary functions and the content field for the linguistic message. Danish functionalists assume that an utterance
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