FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS: THE PRAGUE SCHOOL

Vilém Mathesius

   Prague school, school of linguistic thought and analysis established in Prague in the 1920s by Vilém Mathesius

                                            Roman Jakobson

Nikolay Trubetskoy

It included among its most prominent members the Russian linguist Nikolay Trubetskoy and the Russian-born American linguist Roman Jakobson; the school was most active during the 1920s and ’30s.