Copenhagen School (linguistics)
The Copenhagen School is a center of structural linguistics, which was founded in 1931 by Louis Hjelmslev and Viggo Brondal ( 1887-1942 ).
Description
The Copenhagen School is one next to the Geneva school and the Prague School of structural linguistics to the centers. To distinguish compared to other linguistic traditions, Louis Hjelmslev and Hans J. Uldall in 1936 coined the term Glossematiker with the idea to obtain a formal description of language.
Building on Brøndals emphasis to distinguish the purely formal properties of a system and its substance, put Hjelmslev as the main author of the Copenhagen school in the thirties a formal linguistic approach, which later became known as glossematics ( double duality of the linguistic sign ). He formulated his theory of language, together with Uldall than attempt the expression side ( phonetically and grammatically ) to analyze and the contents page of a language based on uniform principles. He went on the assumption that language is not the only means of communication is ( cf. non-verbal communication ) and was interested in a general theory of communication signs, semiotics or semiology. The Copenhagen School relied more than any other schools to the teaching de Saussure, although they anknüpfte in many old traditions and, for example, tried to combine logic and grammar together again. In any case, Hjelmslev has taken on the psychological interpretation of the linguistic sign and thereby extended the area of the sign is its research far beyond the plain language addition.
As an alignment of structuralism, glossematics de Saussure's concept further leads the linguistic sign.
The key ideas are:
Was already de Saussure more interested in langue as to parole, this was true for the Copenhagen school in a very significant extent. The idea that language is a form and not a substance that was represented there in the purest form. The interest was here the relationship system within the language at a high level of abstraction. This somewhat one-sided formalism has this school often reviews as ' anti-humanism ' and ' linguistics in a vacuum ' introduced.