プラハ言語学サークルの第10テーゼ

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This paper, consisting of two parts, is to examine some aspects of the basic linguistic theory developed by the Prague Linguistic Circle, by translating the last of the ten theses which the circle presented to the First Congress of Slavists held in Prague in 1929. The thesis is connected with language teaching in secondary schools, and includes many important ideas from the viewpoint of functional linguistics. The points suggested in the thesis are the conception of language as a functional system, the effort to establish exact characterologies of various contemporary languages, the exploitation of synchronistic (or contrastive) linguistics in language teaching, the distinction between teaching (or better, cultivating) of the mother tongue and foreign language teaching, the importance of stylistic consideration, and some more methodologically new proposals. In conclusion, the tenth thesis, together with other theses, still holds good, though it appeared over half a century ago.
跡見学園女子大学の論文
1987-03-20