Vilém Mathesius | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-07

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00:01:22 1 Personal life and education
00:04:46 2 Work with the Prague Circle
00:07:42 3 Scholarship
00:08:04 3.1 Literary History (1910-1926)
00:09:38 3.2 The Founding of the Circle (1926-1936)
00:10:23 3.3 Linguistic Functionalism (1936-1945)
00:12:38 4 Legacy
00:15:06 5 Main works



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Vilém Mathesius (3 August 1882, Pardubice – 12 April 1945, Prague) was a Czech linguist, literary historian and co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He is considered one of the founders of structural functionalism in linguistics.Mathesius was the editor-in-chief of two linguistic journals, Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague (“Works of the Prague Linguistic Circle”) and Slovo a slovesnost ("Word and Verbal Art"), and the co-founder of a third, Nové Athenaeum. His extensive publications in these journals and elsewhere cover a range of topics, including the history of English literature, syntax, Czech stylistics, and cultural activism.
In addition to his work in linguistics, in 1912 he founded the department of English philology at Charles University, which was the first such department in Czechoslovakia. He remained head of the department until 1939, when the Nazis closed all Czech universities. The department now exists as a branch of the Faculty of Arts, but it is called the "Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures."