What does «círculo lingüístico de Praga» mean in Spanish?
- The Prague Linguistic Circle or "Prague School" (Cercle linguistique de Prague) was an influential group of literary critics and linguists in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist literary analysis during the years 1928-1939. It has had a significant and continuing influence on linguistics and semiotics. After World War II, the circle disbanded, but the Prague School continued as a major force in linguistic functionalism (distinct from the Copenhagen school or English Firthian - later Hallidean - linguistics). The Prague linguistic circle included Russian émigrés such as Roman Jakobson, Nikolay Trubetzkoy, and Sergei Karcevskiy, as well as the famous Czech literary scholars René Wellek and Jan Mukaovský. Among its founders was the eminent Czech linguist Vilém Mathesius (President of the PLC until his death in 1945).